Bush Administration - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
United States foreign policy had, since the beginning of the Cold War, focused on containing Communism and countering the Soviet threat, and President Bush sold himself to the American public in 1988 as a seasoned statesman. In the first three years of his presidency, Bush won accolades for a number of foreign policy triumphs. He ended years of partisan dispute over U.S. policy in Central America, he presided over the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and he persuaded an unconvinced Congress to support the war in the Persian Gulf. Bush also reacted constructively and creatively to the end of the Cold War, and in 1990 he proclaimed that the old framework of American policy had given way to a new era of international cooperation, a "New World Order." (Graff, p. 600)
Because of the Soviet Union's declining power it was no longer the source of tension that it was during the Cold War years. But deadly conflicts in...
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