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Joe Cunningham: it is an interesting debate, I think, from two different positions. I think the term ``the administration's national…

On the recordJune 9, 1998
it is an interesting debate, I think, from two different positions. I think the term ``the administration's national security advisors'' is an oxymoron, that if you take a look at the history that that is based on, those advisors, I think you would fire them. First of all, you take a look at the failed policies of an extended Somalia. Guess what? Aideed's son is still there. Billions of dollars in lost people in Haiti that could have stayed there for another 200 years and not been a threat, and guess what, Aristide is still there, and they still have the neckties. You look at Bosnia, arming the Muslims with Izetbegovic, and guess what, there is over 12,000 Mujahedin and Hamas there. If we ever pull out of there, it is going to be a tremendous disaster because then it is going to be Izetbegovic's forces. ``Expert control system'' I think is another oxymoron. How do you define sanctions? What is too much to stop someone from shipping? I would think just a shipping company shipping AK-47s into California would stop us from using a shipping company. That same shipping company that ships chemical and biological weapons to Iran, Iraq and Syria, I would think that would be enough to sanction them and stop them. But, no, this administration wants to give them a former Navy security base right in the heart of California. Guess what? This same company just last week, shipping chemical nuclear weapons to Pakistan. Is that enough to bring on sanctions? No.…
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing national security policies and the effectiveness of the administration's advisors.

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