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Eliot Engel: “The way in which a country treats its own people will sometimes tell us how they will treat others”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2015
The way in which a country treats its own people will sometimes tell us how they will treat others
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel links a country's treatment of its citizens to its behavior internationally.

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