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On the recordSeptember 3, 2013
The situation in Syria is that of a national civil war, an ethnic and sectarian conflict that America cannot solve and should not try to.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins argues against U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war.

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