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Joe Biden: “In reviewing the history of our policy in Bosnia, I feel like an odd variant of a worker on a decision tree who, instead…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1997
In reviewing the history of our policy in Bosnia, I feel like an odd variant of a worker on a decision tree who, instead of taking the best choice available to him, was forced to take the second best one in almost every instance where he had a choice to make. It's like that old joke, you know, from Yogi Berra, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Forks in the road that we have been presented with have usually involved two bad choices.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. policy and amendments related to military involvement in Bosnia.

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