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Questions:
a.Summary Summarize Bush’s positions on American involvement in Iraq. Summarize the position put forward by the protesters.
b.Context What were America’s stated foreign policy objectives in the early 1990s? How does the Gulf War fit into those foreign policy objectives? What does that tell us about how Americans understood the nation’s role in the world?
c.The Issue Today: How do these foreign policy objects compare to American foreign policy today? Would the Presidents of the 2000s have made the same choice that the George H.W. Bush administration made? Why or why not? Be sure to use specific examples.
d.Resources
1.Bush Foreign Policy. (2017). Retrieved from Department of State: Office of the Historian: https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/bushi
2.Foreign Policy. (2017). Retrieved from WhiteHouse.Gov: https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policy/
3.Nelson, M. (2017). Barack Obama: Foreign Affairs. Retrieved from the Miller Center: https://millercenter.org/president/obama/foreign-affairs
4.Horsely, S. (2016, September 20.) Patient Diplomacy and a Reluctance to Act: Obama’s Mark on Foreign Policy. Retrieved from National Public Radio: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494625983/patient-diplomacy-and-a-reluctance-to-act-obamas-mark-on-foreign-policy
5.Riley, R. (2017). Bill Clinton: Foreign Affairs. Retrieved from the Miller Center: https://millercenter.org/president/clinton/foreign-affairs
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