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On the recordApril 16, 2013
I mean, that is a very tough question. Would we have intervened in Germany in 1938 if we had known precisely what was going on?
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

Editor's note · Context

King questions the complexities of military intervention in foreign atrocities.

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