Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration
As Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful armed force in a world plagued by small military crises, the question ultimately becomes: when does a crisis call for intervention? ... The days of the United States fearing embroilment in international affairs due to the towering menace of the USSR and global destruction ended at about the same time as Bush ascended the Presidency. ... George Bush as the first American President to sit in that exalted position. ... The world order that President Bush inherited was of a vastly different character then that of all his predecessors.