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Stephen Kinzer: “There is an enormous reservoir of goodwill for the United…”

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 1:10:22

We're still a draw. We're a dream for people all over the world. I wish we would press that. That is our greatest advantage, and it's still out there. There is an enormous reservoir of goodwill for the United States. If we would only play on that, then our competition with other countries would flower in ways that benefit us instead of putting ourselves in the position where we seem like an aggressor right now. (1:10:22–1:10:27)

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Asserts that there is significant global goodwill towards the United States.

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