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Adam Smith: “I want to emphasize though that although we agree that some degree of conditional military assistance is an appropriate…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2014
I want to emphasize though that although we agree that some degree of conditional military assistance is an appropriate way forward, the scale of leverage we can develop through assistance of the kind that any of us are interested in providing, even my friend and colleague Max is not talking about sending 160,000 American troops back to Iraq.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing the limits of military assistance in Iraq.

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