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Summary US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that deep Republican cuts to foreign aid would be detrimental to national security, adding that Washington cannot afford to recede from its presence anywhere in the world.
Hillary Clinton said she had warned Republican House Speaker John Boehner the cuts would cause the State Department and US Agency for International Development (USAID) to scale back their critical roles in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.Clinton also cited the current political upheaval in Egypt, the linchpin of US peacemaking in the Middle East, as a key reason for keeping a strong diplomatic presence that can help to defuse crises.
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