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Ed Markey: “I think that it is going to be a very, very tricky situation, and I worry that they will view anything that stabilizes…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2016
I think that it is going to be a very, very tricky situation, and I worry that they will view anything that stabilizes the Assad regime as being an unintended signal to them to fund Sunni extremists.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the risks of U.S. actions potentially encouraging Sunni extremism.

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