Catch Hold Of After Bush: The Case For Continuity In American Foreign Policy Composed By Timothy J. Lynch File Format Leaflet

looked high and low for a scholarly defense of Bush's foreign policy, This was the best I could do, The authors make a few very good points, For example, that liberals who are swift to interpret theth and other amendments loosely and in an evolutionary fashion when it comes to civil liberties are the same people who want to interpret the foreign policy sections of the constitution with unchanging strictness.
although they fail to make the opposite point that conservatives are therefore equally hypocritical in reverse, The central thesis of this book, repetitively asserted, is that Bush will be recognized in the future as a successful president, whose policies will be followed in broad outlines by all his successors.
They point again and again to Truman, and claim that just as his early actions in the "First Cold War" made him temporarily unpopular but ultimately hailed as a key president in the victory of the West, Bush will be seen as the leader who launched thend cold war against "islamofascism".
There are vast problems with this claim, First, while the authors go to great pains to position Bush as like Clinton, Reagan, his father, and so on, Bush's foreign policy truly was new and unprecedented in its launch of preemptive war, its endorsing of torture, and its rejection of old alliances.
Also, any book that quotes, approvingly, the work of pseudo scholar Dinesh D'Souza, in comparing Abu Ghraib to the typical mid range Arab hotel, is damning itself with idiocy.
Still, Bush must hope that this view prevails, I deem it highly unlikely, Towards the end of his second term, it appears George W, Bushs foreign policy has won few admirers, with pundits and politicians eagerly and opportunistically bashing the tenets of the Bush Doctrine.
This provocative account dares to counter the dogma of Bushs Beltway detractors and his ideological enemies, boldly arguing that Bushs policy deservedly belongs within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition.
Though the shifting tide of public opinion has led many to anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years, authors Timothy Lynch and Robert S.
Singh suggest that there willand shouldbe continuity in

US foreign policy from his Presidency to those who follow.
Providing a positive audit of the war on terror which they contend should be understood as a Second Cold War they charge that the Bush Doctrine has been consistent with past foreign policiesfrom Republican and Democratic presidenciesand that the key elements of Bushs grand strategy will rightly continue to shape Americas approach in the future.
Above all, they predict that his successors will pursue the war against Islamist terror with similar dedication.
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