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Stephen Kinzer: “The number one priority for people everywhere before…”

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 1:08:02

It's very difficult for us to understand that many countries don't want this. So the world is really not flat. Everybody doesn't want the same things that we want. People have different priorities. The number one priority for people everywhere before political rights is security. You want to be able to walk on the street and build a house and not have the police come and steal the windows the next day. (1:08:02–1:08:08)

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