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Stephen Kinzer: “It's dangerous actually in the future to configure an army…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 46:08

There might be a time when we really do need an army and I don't think we're preparing for it well by sending people on extended deployments all over the world and giving them the sense that that's really what the army stands for. It's dangerous actually in the future to configure an army this way. Yeah, I think that this, you know, the nation building mission that our military has been used for for so long has been proven to be a failure time and time again. (46:08–46:13)

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Asserts that the current configuration of the U.S. military poses future risks.

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