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See this clip of Joe Biden addressing the US Senate on 13 September 1995 about the conflict in Bosnia. \u00a0Biden’s views were apparently based on what he had learned during an\u00a0official\u00a0visit he made to Sarajevo with Senator Bob Dole. \u00a0The clip is an interesting example of the way international political figures form trenchant views on matters in foreign countries that they barely know, on the basis of total and instant belief in what they have been told by a single interest group. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Mr Biden claims in the clip that the\u00a0Serbs had ‘invaded’ Bosnia to persecute the Bosnian\u00a0Muslims. \u00a0He was apparently unaware that Serbs have long made up more than 30% of Bosnia’s population (with Bosnian Muslims the largest group at just over 40%) \u00a0and had no need to ‘invade’ their own country despite the illegal \u00a0recognition of \u00a0Bosnia as a sovereign state by those parts of the\u00a0international community that have no respect for the UN Charter or international law.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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See this clip of Joe Biden addressing the US Senate on 13 September 1995 about the conflict in Bosnia. \u00a0Biden’s views were apparently based on what he had learned during an\u00a0official\u00a0visit he made to Sarajevo with Senator Bob Dole. \u00a0The clip is an interesting example of the way international political figures form trenchant views on … <\/p>\n

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