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Jerry Moran: “I would ask my friend from Georgia: What's the alternative? Should we have gone into Rwanda? The U.N. was an abysmal…”

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.
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Jerry Moran
Republican · Kansas
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Feb 18, 2011

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The speaker discusses the role of the United States in international conflicts and the limitations of the U.N.

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