CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello October 22, 2015 14:48:00
The state department from very senior career diplomats, in fact. they were saying it was going to produce a net negative for u.s. military intervention. for example, in a march 9, 2011 e-mail, which has become known as the libya options memo, executive secretary of the state department, and one of the top career diplomats said this, in the case of our diplomatic history, when we provided material or tactical military support to people seeking to drive their leaders from power, no matter how just their cause, it's tended to produce net negatives for our interests over the long term in those cou...
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