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On the recordMay 20, 2015
Let me tell you why I think the absence of the humanitarian zone is going to go down as one of the big mistakes that we've made, equivalent to the decision not to engage in humanitarian activity in Rwanda in the 1990s.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine compares the lack of a humanitarian zone in Syria to past humanitarian failures.

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