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Ben Cardin: “Lessons learned, as I see it, is that we have to have a strategy to make sure that our engagement does not reinforce the…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2021
Lessons learned, as I see it, is that we have to have a strategy to make sure that our engagement does not reinforce the greed of corrupt leaders, and that was, I think, absent in Afghanistan.
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Ben Cardin
Democratic · Maryland

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Cardin emphasizes the need for a strategy to avoid empowering corrupt leaders in Afghanistan.

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