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Dick Lugar: Is the proposed policy sufficiently considering the--what I like to call the ``balloon effect'' of ``whatever happens in…

On the recordMay 11, 2009
Is the proposed policy sufficiently considering the--what I like to call the ``balloon effect'' of ``whatever happens in Afghanistan affects Pakistan,'' or vice versa?
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar questions if policy accounts for the interlinked issues of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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