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On the recordMarch 7, 2023
I must say that I am deeply concerned by some of my colleagues who paint the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan with such broad strokes as to divorce the emergency evacuation from those choices and the full context that led up to the events in August 2021.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Concerned about colleagues oversimplifying the Afghanistan withdrawal situation.

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