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Jim Webb: “All parties have good reasons to make concessions. None of them can afford to watch Burma descend further into isolation…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2011
All parties have good reasons to make concessions. None of them can afford to watch Burma descend further into isolation and desperation and wait to act until another generation of its people is lost.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Senator Webb emphasizes the need for concessions to prevent further isolation of Burma.

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