I wasn't rationalizing anything. I was merely noting that Bob Dole receives praise from various quarters for his work in the Balkans (he's a big hero to Samantha Power), and Bubba gets qualified praise.
The fact that she took his phrase and uses to push the claim of "genocide" in Bosnia is deceptive when the phrase was more for a civil war complication and much about the Muslim-Croat fighting, which the media downplayed.
Dole was paid out, he did nothing of worth in terms of Balkan policy. He shilled for the Albanians.