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Mike McCaul: The only people who benefit from more violence and more chaos are America's adversaries Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad…

On the recordOctober 22, 2019
The only people who benefit from more violence and more chaos are America's adversaries Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, the terror-sponsoring dictatorship in Iran, and Islamic extremists in the area and around the world.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

McCaul warns that U.S. withdrawal will empower adversaries like Putin and Assad.

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