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February 21, 2013

Kerry: Spending Cuts Under Sequestration Threaten U.S. Diplomacy 
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In a speech at the University of Virginia on Wednesday, Secretary of
State John Kerry warned the looming sequester could threaten U.S.
diplomacy overseas.

Secretary of State John Kerry: "I'm particularly aware that in many ways
the greatest challenge to America's foreign policy today is in the hands
not of diplomats, but of policymakers in Congress. It is often said that
we cannot be strong at home if we're not strong in the world. But in
these days of a looming budget sequester, that everyone actually wants
to avoid, or most, we can't be strong in the world unless we are strong
at home. My credibility as a diplomat working to help other countries
create order is strongest when America at last puts its own fiscal house
in order, and that has to be now."

 

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