Biden comes from the liberal internationalist tradition. He was an early champion of U.S. intervention in the civil war in Bosnia, a step President Clinton took in 1995 to stop the slaughter. But Biden wasn’t reflexively interventionist; in the Obama White House, he argued that U.S. forces in Afghanistan should be drawn down as early as 2009 — advice Obama rejected at the time.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 27, 2019 11:03 UTC