01/12/2009
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"As the new year approaches, we find ourselves 15 years removed from September 11th, 13 years from the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, five years from the turmoil of the Arab Spring, two years from B..."
"I do not get a sense that there is one, and that worries me."
"I am not confident that Iraqi leaders are sufficiently engaged to respond to the humanitarian crisis coming when hundreds of thousands of civilians flee Mosul."
"I think we had a lot of missed opportunities when this committee passed not unanimously but a strong bipartisan vote to train and to assist the vetted Syrian rebels."