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On the recordMarch 7, 2023
I believe that we are deluding ourselves if we believe that this could have been as an easy operation given the deteriorating security situation and rapidly changing events on the ground that no one could have predicted.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Expressing skepticism about the ease of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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