Essay - Warren Cohen's Assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy Agree with Warren...

Warren Cohen's Assessment of U.S. Foreign Policy agree with Warren Cohen that the U.S. has seen its complacency come crashing down with the twin towers ***** New York's World Trade Center, and that George W. Bush has used Osama bin Laden as an excuse to invade a nation he w***** going to invade any*****ay, to get the man who had tried to kill his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.

***** H.W. Bush followed Reagan as president. Elected in 1988, he was familiar with the cold war from 1945 to 1987 us*****g multiple *****euvers by the two super-powers of the world, the United States and the ***** Soviet Socialist Republic (Russia), to persuade all the o*****r *****s that their respective policies were the most beneficial. The resulting build-up of nuclear power and the formation of world-wide organizations, such as the World Bank, the World ***** Organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (NAFTA) and ***** United Nations were all designed to persuade other nations to support one side or the o*****r. The ***** States went into debt funding t***** competition in space, in turning out scientists ***** in develop*****g athletes to compete in the Olympics. Bush also realized the ********** w***** faltering economically and politically. Little did he know that in 1989, only a year ***** his pre*****ncy, Mikhail Gorbac*****v would withdraw the Soviet Union from competition.

Even though ***** followed a slipping ***** *****dministration, he was wise enough to gather a skilled staff ***** help solve international problems. His national security advisor and Secretary ***** State, Henry Kissinger was his closest advisor. When Gorbachev withdrew 500,000 troops ***** its ranks ***** shut down stations in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, essentially allow*****g the ***** Union to fall apart, Bush could hardly believe it. He ***** his advisors interpreted this move as a continuation of the Cold War. He w***** unwillingly ********** ***** James Baker and world events to reduce American troops. In ***** years ***** followed, the role of ***** United ***** became that ***** World Policeman. Though forces ***** downsized, the U.S. retained ***** in key locations, such as in Germany ***** South Korea, throughout the world.

Warren Cohen expla*****s that ***** leftists in American politics *****fluenced, rather than commanded politics, that they held centrist views and were suspicious of aggressive or benevolent attempts to control oil-producing ***** through war or foreign aid. ********** were against NAFTA and free trade, since workers would lose jobs at home, but were heartened by Bush's decisions to not extend war into Baghdad ***** to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Bill Clinton was ***** successor and rode into power upon the back of his promises to balance the federal budget and ***** ***** deficit, which he accomplis*****d through raising taxes and cutting the defense budget. He paid little *****tention to foreign policy and Colin Powell, ***** chairman of the Joint Chiefs, succeeded in undermining Clin*****n's validity, as did a few ***** the o*****r foreign ***** staff. Clinton proved poor in matters of