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Locked in a tight U.S. Senate race in Arizona, Republican Martha McSally charged in a recent debate that a comment made by her Democratic rival, Kyrsten Sinema, about the Taliban in 2003 amounts to saying it’s “OK to commit treason.”
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McSally has kept up that line of attack, saying on “Fox News Sunday” that Sinema’s comment was “totally out of step with American values, when she clearly says in this radio interview she has no problem with an American going to join the Taliban.”

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Sinema’s Taliban Comment in Context

By Robert Farley Posted on October 22, 2018

". . . The comment at issue came during a radio interview Sinema gave in February 2003 to publicize an antiwar protest in Phoenix. The host, libertarian Ernest Hancock, seemed to object to using U.S. tax dollars in foreign countries for war or humanitarian purposes. “You can do whatever you want with your money, not mine,” he said.
At one point, Hancock posed a hypothetical in which he made a “personal decision” to “go fight in the Taliban army.” Sinema responded, “Fine. I don’t care if you want to do that, go ahead.”
Moments later, Sinema tried to steer the conversation back to her purpose for the interview, to talk about the following day’s protest of U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Asked about her Taliban comment during an interview with the Arizona Republic editorial board on Oct. 17, Sinema said, “That was an offhand comment to direct the conversation back to what I wanted to talk about, which was my concerns around this war.
I was against the war — 15 years later, I think there are good reasons for that.”
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Before her 'make-over', 15 years ago McSally was earning her wings as a fledgling female Navy pilot, groomed to have all-the-right-stuff, except for the facts  
See this from Blog For Arizona:

The not-so-great Martha McSally Makeover | Blog for Arizona

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Jun 13, 2018 - The not-so-great Martha McSally Makeover powers on as the southern Arizona fighter pilot continues her startling downward spiral, leaving ...

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An audio recording of the interview provides as much context as we are going to get.

Below is a transcript of the full exchange (starting at the 2:15 mark).

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Sinema's Taliban Comment in Context

FactCheck.org-Oct 22, 2018

President Donald Trump echoed that attack as well during a rally in Mesa, Arizona, on Oct. 19. “After 9/11, Martha McSally heroically led air strikes against ...

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