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Peter Welch: “It is realistic for the Congress to appropriate money, and then ask AID or the military related reconstruction, to do…”

On the recordApril 2, 2014
It is realistic for the Congress to appropriate money, and then ask AID or the military related reconstruction, to do the impossible when the structural foundations of Afghanistan are based on the benefits of corruption.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch questions the feasibility of U.S. aid efforts in a corrupt Afghan system.

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