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Bush's bait-and-switch. (Insider Report).(George W. Bush )(Brief Article)
"Before getting elected ... George W. Bush's team said it would pursue a unilateral foreign policy," noted British attorney Jon Holbrook in the February 25th edition of the on-line journal Spiked Politics. "But once it was elected, the Bush presidency found it difficult to put this go-it-alone Americanism into practice." Critics of the Bush administration's supposed unilateralist tendencies underestimate "Bush's newfound enthusiasm for the international community," contends Holbrook.
Indeed, "Bush's willingness to walk the UN route is in stark contrast to the approach adopted by previous U.S. presidents," Holbrook continues. "During the Cold War, it would have been unthinkable that America would have found it necessary to obtain UN authority for its many military interventions.... Today, America and the Western world face no power that is remotely comparable to that of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. Saddam's Iraq has as much ...
- BUSH APPROVES $1.5B IN LOANS TO SOVIET UNION.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 12, 1991 700+ words
...Times President Bush approved $1...guarantees for the Soviet Union on Tuesday and...Fitzwater said Bush, who is required...certify that the Soviet Union is capable of...Asked why Bush had agreed to help the Soviet Union buy more food...
- Bush Democrats. (nomination of Robert S. Strauss as ambassador to the Soviet...
- Magazine article from: National Review McGurn, William July 8, 1991 700+ words
...1980 when Baker was running Bush's campaign and Strauss Jimmy...a signal to Gorbachev that Bush is interested in internal developments in the Soviet Union and wants to have someone...unanswered question is how Bush wants to influence events...
- Bush without a wallet. (economic assistance to the Soviet Union) (column)
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Schorr, Daniel July 9, 1990 700+ words
...influence. President Bush says that "we have more...in giving aid to the Soviet Union, so Japan proposed to...giving aid to China. All Bush could do is express his...upset by everything about Bush from perceived weakness...withholding assistance to the Soviet Union may sound ...
- Doing well by doing good: as the Bush administration contemplates the Soviet...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 15, 1991 700+ words
...plan are beguiling. The Soviet Union, like Western Europe...differences-both in the Soviet Union and in the United States...budget deficit. For the Bush administration, finding...positively about aid for the Soviet Union, they are probably thinking...
- Economic warfare can win terror war: Ronald Reagan personally crafted a...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Waller, J. Michael November 12, 2002 700+ words
...the collapse of the Soviet Union, veteran practitioners...guideposts to help the Bush administration develop...warfare policy toward the Soviet Union until the early 1980s...offensive against the Soviet Union. The strategy aimed...
- What Bush hasn't told us. (George Bush, the Persian Gulf crisis and the Soviet...
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Schorr, Daniel September 17, 1990 700+ words
...Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, Bush gave no indication of what his...era of peace and justice that Bush said he shared with Gorbachev...his new best friend from the Soviet Union. Indeed, a careful reading of the Bush speech reveals echoes of the...
- Communism's new deal: Gorbachev's party is divided but it remains in command....
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Stanglin, Douglas Walsh, Kenneth T. July 29, 1991 700+ words
...up meeting with President Bush in Moscow next week. But Gorbachev...of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and as such he is the uncertain...Although it will be upstaged by Bush's visit a few days later...may prove more important than Bush's and Gorbachev's latest...
- The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 3, 1991 700+ words
The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as...ONLY a week before George Bush went to Moscow for his summit...Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International...for full membership. Mr Bush was miffed, since only...