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In the tradition.(In Defense of the Bush Doctrine)(Book review)
In Defense of the Bush Doctrine, by Robert G. Kaufman (Kentucky, 264 pp., $35)
WHEN he was elected president in 2000, George W. Bush gave every indication that he, like his father before him, was a conventional "realist" in foreign affairs: committed to a grand strategy of selective engagement, and critical of the open-ended nature of the Clinton doctrine and its indiscriminate use of military force in instances not involving vital national interests. In his speeches, Bush stressed foreign-policy retrenchment and military "transformation" in preparation for the emergence of a future large peer competitor in the vein of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ...
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...Truman reversed a post-World War II policy of withdrawal from Europe and committed America to containing and resisting the Soviet Union. In 1981, Ronald Reagan reversed a failed policy of detente and committed America to seek victory over communism". Then...
Source: HighBeam Research, In the tradition.(In Defense of the Bush Doctrine)(Book review)