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Lindsey Graham: “If we withdraw the 33,000 by September of next year, will this still be a counterinsurgency operation?”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2011
If we withdraw the 33,000 by September of next year, will this still be a counterinsurgency operation?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Senator Graham questions the viability of counterinsurgency after troop withdrawals.

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