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Colin Allred: “If you enter into a war, if you ask our young people to risk…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Inside Texas Politics | Full Interview on Congressional District 33 runoff with Colin Allred

Published | Video Starts at 09:10

Well, I don't know, and I don't really know what our end goal is. And that's one of the things that's most frustrating to me because I think If you enter into a war, if you ask our young people to risk their lives to do this, and you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars of our taxpayer dollars on that, that you should be able to tell the American people exactly what that end goal is. But what I do know is that we often, when we start conflicts like this, we, we often can't control how they end. (09:10–09:23)

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Asserts that the government should clearly define the end goal when entering a war.

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