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Jim Risch: Why should the United States, as a matter of foreign policy, intervene at all?

On the recordJuly 31, 2012
Why should the United States, as a matter of foreign policy, intervene at all?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Questions the rationale for U.S. foreign interventions.

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