How Joe Biden Crossed Party Lines To Stand Up To Genocide

 

     As a senator, Joe Biden chaired the Judiciary Committee and Foreign Relations Committee, and the latter position saw him confront an international crisis. In 1999, he, along with Senators John McCain and Bob Dole, held the Clinton administration and NATO responsible and introduced a resolution authorizing bombing after reports surfaced that Slobodan Milošević engaged in ethnic cleansing, rape, torture, kidnapping, and even organ harvesting against ethnic minorities in Yugoslavia, particularly in Kosovo.

     The operation was a success after two months of bombing, and Milošević was arrested a year later and charged with war crimes. He killed himself via quasi-suicide shortly before his expected trial. 

     Biden later supported Kosovo in its movement for independence from Serbia, and in 2009 he was given the Golden Medal of Freedom by the country.