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Eliot Engel: “I think the United States is not going to be prepared to act unilaterally, as it threatened to do in the Balkans.”

On the recordOctober 29, 2013
I think the United States is not going to be prepared to act unilaterally, as it threatened to do in the Balkans.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel discusses U.S. reluctance to act unilaterally in Syria compared to past actions in the Balkans.

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