GOVT 1313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Defense Intelligence Agency, United States Senate Committee On Foreign Relations, Internal Revenue Service
14 Nov 2016
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The cold war put an end to the american tradition of not getting involved in conflicts unless there was an extraordinary affront to american sovereignty/interest. Whatever prevented the ussr today would be inadequate tomorrow. History principle: most american presidents have come to office focused primarily on. It was a joke in clinton"s campaign that he learned foreign policy from ihop domestic policies and issues. Presidents often fill their cabinet with foreign policy experts. Bush"s cabinet: cheney vp (former secretary of defense), rumsfeld secretary of defense (former ambassador to nato), colin powell secretary of state (career military officer), rice national security advisor (former ussr specialist) Bush"s foreign-policy actions were bombing afghanistan/iraq, revival of nuclear missile shield (star wars), abandoning anti-ballistic missile treaty. Rationality principle: foreign-policy initiatives by the president are taken in light of the domestic political landscape. The 1964 gulf of tonkin resolution was passed unanimously in the house with only two negative votes in the senate.
