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Article: Bush faces a host of foreign policy crises.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2003
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Byline: David Jackson
CRAWFORD, Texas _ In the wake of the great blackout, President Bush planned to promote his energy policy the other day, his aides arranging a brief news conference at a local gas station.
Less than two hours later, terrorists struck United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
About five hours after that, a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem.
American presidents don't necessarily go looking for foreign policy crises, but foreign policy crises always manage to find them.
"Not a great fun time to be president," said Ruth Wedgwood, an international law professor at Johns Hopkins University. "Clearly, ...