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Adam Kinzinger: “We're naive if we think America's never going to have to be in this situation again in the next 50 or 100 years.”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
We're naive if we think America's never going to have to be in this situation again in the next 50 or 100 years.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

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Kinzinger emphasizes the inevitability of future military engagements for the U.S.

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