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Jim Risch: Yemen is a fragile state. It is not a failed state.

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
Yemen is a fragile state. It is not a failed state.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Risch distinguishes Yemen as fragile but not failed, highlighting its political development.

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