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Rob Portman: I know there have been casualties and there have been fatalities, but do think that pulling out on an arbitrary date…

On the recordApril 26, 2021
I know there have been casualties and there have been fatalities, but do think that pulling out on an arbitrary date, not conditions based at all and not providing any sense of continued support for the intelligence community to be able to keep us safe from what happened on 9/11, concerns me a lot.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman highlights the risks of an unconditional U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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