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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: JohnM who wrote (75954)2/20/2003 12:25:48 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
JohnM,

it's so hard to forget eight years of a good economy and a peaceful foreign policy

The overall good economy - agreed, but the bubble burst over a year before he left office - so its a stretch to say 8 years and the recession he ran on was over before he entered office. And his succesor was going to have a problem whomever was elected.

On the foreign policy issue - define peaceful? :-)

Friendly with old Europe - yes. Non-confrontational - yes. Peaceful - how many people died from warfare or genocide during his Presidency? How many during the Reagan tenure?

Bush 1 was a great diplomat and was also non-confrontational - and the original problem in Kuwait probably rests on Saddam's perception he wouldn't oppose him. He would have never tried that on Reagan :-)

I don't know the numbers - but it would be interesting to find out.

If genocide happens and its not on the 6pm news, maybe it doesn't really happen. Anyway - who really cares about 3rd world countries?

John
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