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Jim Webb: “I think my major concern is how we define our strategic objectives in Afghanistan and how that matches up with what we…”

On the recordJune 7, 2011
I think my major concern is how we define our strategic objectives in Afghanistan and how that matches up with what we are able to actually accomplish in a cost-benefit way.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Webb expresses concern over defining strategic objectives in Afghanistan.

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