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Article: Bush doctrine. (Special Report US).(George W. Bush, foreign policy; United States' relations with Middle East)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- August 23, 2002
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America has undergone big changes in the 19 months since George W Bush assumed office as the 43rd president of the US. Terrorism, war and economic recession top the agenda -- a dramatic contrast with the comfortable mood of the Clinton era. David Butter considers what lies in store as Bush prepares for war on Iraq, and assesses the implications of the US reverting to a foreign policy based on the aggressive projection of military force.
George W Bush is not the only US president to have prepared for office by riding the range on his cattle ranch. In the mid 1880s, Theodore Roosevelt retreated to his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory after the death of his ...