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Jim Risch: “A rational strategic assessment would never devote sizable military, diplomatic, economic, and alliance resources to a…”

On the recordApril 5, 2011
A rational strategic assessment would never devote sizable military, diplomatic, economic, and alliance resources to a civil war in Libya.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Argument against U.S. involvement in the Libyan civil war.

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