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Angus King: “Our policy has been a--benign neglect is too strong a term, but it's been a kind of--go slow.”

On the recordOctober 7, 2015
Our policy has been a--benign neglect is too strong a term, but it's been a kind of--go slow.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

Editor's note · Context

King critiques U.S. policy towards Assad as indecisive.

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