The reason we have no moral authority is we’re not acting. I heard the same argument with Milosevic. I went over there, found out there was genocide going on, I came to your husband, I said, "We must act!" Now, look, we acted. Not an American was killed. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The reason we have no moral authority is we’re not acting. I heard the same argument with Milosevic. I went over there, found out there was genocide going on, I came to your husband, I said, "We must act!" Now, look, we acted. Not an American was killed. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives." in the context of "Joe Biden, June 3, 2007 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/03/se.01.html" to mean that wisdom is timeless.