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Claire McCaskill: “If we did an indiscriminate carpet-bombing of a major area, and killed thousands of women and children, would you assume…”

On the recordMay 20, 2015
If we did an indiscriminate carpet-bombing of a major area, and killed thousands of women and children, would you assume that would have some impact on their ability to recruit misguided barbarians?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

McCaskill questions the consequences of indiscriminate bombing on terrorist recruitment.

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