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...Indeed, congressional leaders would do well to learn from the lessons of the past. Nearly eight decades ago, as the Great Depression was beginning to plunge the United States into ever-greater economic peril, Congress—at the behest of the agricultural and industrial lobbies??€”passed the highest set of import duties in American history, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The results were disastrous; according to the State Department, “while the tariff might not have caused the Depression, it certainly did not make it any better. It provoked a storm of foreign retaliatory measures?...
...example, the professors situate the Israel lobby as just one lobby among a host of ethnic lobbies??€”something they did not do in the original article. The authors write that “ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans have [also] managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored...
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