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Chris Smith: “Our policy failures and misbegotten adventurism in 2011 helped fuel the crisis which you must address today.”

On the recordNovember 13, 2019
Our policy failures and misbegotten adventurism in 2011 helped fuel the crisis which you must address today.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Critiques past U.S. interventions contributing to current instability in the Sahel.

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