Who is ultimately responsible?
I can think of a couple that come to mind but am curious as to your thoughts.
2007-01-09 04:45:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think the biggest foreign policy failure was the 'selection' of Emperor Bush... everything that has subsequently flowed from that event has been devastating to the world view of a great country and peoples.
2007-01-10 01:50:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not the answer you wanted but here:
The "Red Scare" was a pretty jacked up policy, who knew the commies would run out of money?
Carter's foreign policies just made the Islamic Radicals bolder, by giving in to them and not retaliating...
The way Clinton handled Islamic Radicals was a failure, once again a Democrat tried to please them and did nothing when they attacked us...
To get the answer you fish for your questions should have been, "What has been the biggest foreign policy failure in the U.S. in the last 8 years?" You want people to say Bush, but their has been many, many FOREIGN POLICY failures in the last 50 years...
Oh yea spell check is a handy tool, or have they not taught that yet in Jr High School?
2007-01-09 12:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cuba and not taking the whole damn thing when we had the chance. Of course, that goes back as far as Teddy Roosevelt.
But, chickening out to Khruschchev sucked, big time.
That's JFK's biggest black mark, in my mind. That Castro is still the de juris leader there is astounding.
2007-01-09 13:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to say invading Iraq ranks up there.
The handling of the Iran-Hostage issue by Carter. Should never have gone 400+ days. The events leading up to that count too.
Somalia was a mess too.
2007-01-09 12:53:50 · answer #4 · answered by dapixelator 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
not nuking china back into the stone age when they first started working on their nuke program....china now has control of the panama canal through a company owned by a chinese loyalist and has ties to cuba which are getting stronger every day...not to mention their support of the axis of evil...iran, n korea.....everyone is saying how pakistan is letting the nukes out on the world market, well, where do you think pakistan got them from..??? china is a very serious threat to the western world..they have not opened their society and gov't up to be transparent , but the west has allowed them into the WTO ..and it is quickly becoming a global influence and allying itself with our enemies....sooner or later, china will flex its percieved economic or military might and try to dictate to us what to do...and if it has the middle easts complicity, it just might get away with it...to our sorrow...
2007-01-09 12:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by badjanssen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean besides the day the Supreme Court of the United States invested George W. Bush president?
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2007-01-09 12:51:32 · answer #6 · answered by Jackson Leslie 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Going to war in Iraq over WMD's, which didn't exist.
Bush is responsible. Although he may have genuinely thought they were there, he should have done some more research to find out they weren't.
2007-01-09 12:51:48 · answer #7 · answered by greencoke 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage situation.... hands down
2007-01-09 12:52:45 · answer #8 · answered by DiamondDave 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ignoring Saddam's behavior for so long - who's responsible - the stupid, uneducated Democrats!!!
2007-01-09 12:55:07 · answer #9 · answered by tx girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buckwheat posting his opinions on yahoo answers.
That has got to make the free world look bad. Our allies will never forgive us.
2007-01-09 12:50:54 · answer #10 · answered by askthepizzaguy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋