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Jim Webb: “They really don't add, quite frankly, to the security of the United States to have them as members of NATO.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
They really don't add, quite frankly, to the security of the United States to have them as members of NATO.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Webb critiques the inclusion of certain countries in NATO as not enhancing U.S. security.

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