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On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
I would ask my friend from Georgia: What's the alternative? Should we have gone into Rwanda? The U.N. was an abysmal failure, but where was the United States? And if we didn't have the United Nations, the United States would be asked to carry that themselves. We can't be the world's policeman. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.
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Jerry Moran
Republican · Kansas

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