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Jim Webb: “If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move sort of in an ad hoc way.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Webb critiques the lack of clear timelines in military commitments.

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