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Lindsey Graham: “Is it fair to say that our national security interests are not going to be judged in history by the day we left…”

On the recordMarch 11, 2014
Is it fair to say that our national security interests are not going to be judged in history by the day we left Afghanistan, but by what we left behind?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham emphasizes the importance of the aftermath of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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