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Eliot Engel: “I want to talk about Afghanistan, because we are 16 years into the war there.”

On the recordNovember 7, 2017
I want to talk about Afghanistan, because we are 16 years into the war there.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel addresses the prolonged U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

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