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Eliot Engel: “I am convinced that the administration's reversal on a long-held policy of removing Assad emboldened him to carry out…”

On the recordApril 26, 2017
I am convinced that the administration's reversal on a long-held policy of removing Assad emboldened him to carry out the sarin gas attack in the first place.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel links the U.S. policy shift on Assad to increased aggression in Syria.

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