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Eliot Engel: “I can't help but thinking if we had been there and had done it when it should have been done, might things have been…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
I can't help but thinking if we had been there and had done it when it should have been done, might things have been different now in Syria?
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel reflects on past U.S. intervention in Syria and its potential impact.

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