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Stephen Kinzer: “Most members of Congress don't even want to answer questions…”

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 07:40

And that's not the way it should be. Right. Secondly, your point about the role of foreign policy in presidential debates and in congressional debates is absolutely true. Most members of Congress don't even want to answer questions on foreign policy. They haven't thought about it and they fear saying anything wrong. So what they do is they just grab for the cliches that have been on the talk talking point cards that both parties distribute to their members because. (07:40–07:45)

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