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Ruben Gallego: “The longer we were there, you know, The Somali clans got…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 17:20

And you've seen, you saw, you know, in the Iraq war, people, as long we were there, the surgeons got more comfortable. Somalia is another good example. The longer we were there, you know, The Somali clans got more comfortable and confident in shooting us. So the same thing could happen very quickly in Venezuela. You mentioned that he's stuck in 1987, which I think is very apt. (17:20–17:26)

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Asserts that prolonged military presence in Somalia increased local resistance.

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