Saturday, December 11, 2021

Opinion: Bob Dole's efforts to prevent the genocide of Bosnians, remembered

Then U.S. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (right) speaks to reporters about the Senate vote to lift the arms embargo over Bosnia on July 26, 1995, as then Sen. Joseph Biden looks on.

Scott Simon remembers the late Sen. Bob Dole. When Yugoslavia broke apart in 1991, Dole tried hard, but failed, to get an arms embargo lifted so Bosnian Muslims could defend themselves.

(Image credit: Luke Frazza/AFP via Getty Images)

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