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Adriano Espaillat: “This is a mess, Ambassador. It shows how poor our foreign policy efforts are as a country.”

On the recordMay 21, 2019
This is a mess, Ambassador. It shows how poor our foreign policy efforts are as a country.
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Adriano Espaillat
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Espaillat critiques U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East as ineffective.

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