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Dick Lugar: Do you at least acknowledge that investing over $100 billion in just one country, in 1 year alone, risks degrading our…

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
Do you at least acknowledge that investing over $100 billion in just one country, in 1 year alone, risks degrading our long-term ability to relentlessly pursue al-Qaeda around the globe?
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar questions the effectiveness of heavy investment in Afghanistan against global terrorism.

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