Foreign Policy Bulletin: Volume 14 -

President George W. Bush and His War Cabinet
James P. Pfiffner
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26 June 2009, pp. 288-296
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George W. Bush certainly did not expect to be a war president. In his private sector career and as Governor of Texas he had seldom traveled abroad, and he did not demonstrate much interest in international affairs. In his campaign for the presidency he expressed skepticism about foreign entanglements and a disdain for “nation building.” Yet events conspired to make war the central concern of his presidency; after the terrorist attack on the United States in September 2001, Bush saw the war on terrorism as the primary mission of his presidency. “I'm here for a reason, and this [the war on terrorism] is going to be how we're to be judged.”1 Soon thereafter he decided that the U.S. should conduct a campaign for regime change in Iraq, by military means, if necessary.

North Korea Admits to Nuclear Program; U.S. Seeks to Reduce Tensions Through Regional Diplomacy
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26 June 2009, pp. 297-325
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