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Peter Welch: The place is a mess, nation-building, an arrogant policy embraced by a prior administration, didn't work out so great.

On the recordMay 16, 2016
The place is a mess, nation-building, an arrogant policy embraced by a prior administration, didn't work out so great.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch criticizes the failed nation-building efforts in Afghanistan.

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