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Chris Smith: U.S. military engagement with the Burmese Government at this time... is clearly premature unless we are to be taken...…

On the recordSeptember 18, 2013
U.S. military engagement with the Burmese Government at this time... is clearly premature unless we are to be taken... as excusing the type of abuses.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith argues against military engagement with Burma due to ongoing human rights abuses.

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