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Ed Markey: “Again, I am just going to call for a little bit of humility. We wanted to remove Qaddafi from Libya. We wanted to remove…”

On the recordSeptember 15, 2015
Again, I am just going to call for a little bit of humility. We wanted to remove Qaddafi from Libya. We wanted to remove Mubarak from Egypt. We wanted to remove Saddam Hussein from Iraq. And we want to remove Assad from Syria. Not working out so great, so far.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the need for humility in foreign interventions due to unintended consequences.

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