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Leaving Syria now could cost US intelligence source

Jason Campbell, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, said on Federal Drive with Tom Temin that leaving Syria could have detrimental consequences.

February 8, 2019 9:45 am
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Should U.S. troops totally depart Syria, as the White House has been planning? The United States would lose more than the ability to shoot back at whomever we’re fighting there. Also gone would be a valuable source of intelligence — ditto for an exit from Afghanistan. That’s according to Jason Campbell, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, and he joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in studio.

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