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Dick Lugar: “The Senator has stated the options all too vividly; namely, we respond to security crises by ourselves or we say nothing…”

On the recordJune 16, 1997
The Senator has stated the options all too vividly; namely, we respond to security crises by ourselves or we say nothing is going to happen in the world. And worse still, we lose the option, if we do not have the United Nations, of going as we did to the Security Council, at the time the United States presided, during Desert Storm when we obtained a Security Council resolution that brought a number of nations to our side in a very, very important endeavor.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the role of the United Nations in responding to global security crises.

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