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When America was Actually Great and made dominating the world look effortless and historically inevitable.

When America was Actually Great and made dominating the world look effortless and historically inevitable. | image tagged in president,history,ussr,cold war,peace,george bush | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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George H.W. Bush | image tagged in george hw bush | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Looked down upon by liberals as a Reagan-lite, and downplayed by conservatives because he was a one-termer who famously broke a pledge and raised taxes.

But H.W. not only thrashed Iraq without getting bogged down in a forever war, he also oversaw the breakup of the USSR without firing a shot.

He set the stage for the 1990s as arguably America’s most successful and dominant decade ever. Bill Clinton didn’t terribly mishandle it, but you could argue Clinton simply enjoyed the benefit of the geopolitical groundwork H.W. laid.

And while Clinton dithered in Kosovo and elsewhere, he let the real future threat Osama bin Laden slip away despite OBL’s being responsible for several overseas terrorist attacks and connections to the 1993 WTC bombing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/16/bill-clinton-and-the-missed-opportunities-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/%3foutputType=amp

H.W. was patriotic, respectful, knowledgable, a gentleman to the core, and was remembered fondly by pretty much everyone who worked with him regardless of Party.

The one thing you could maybe fault him for is not taking a harder-line against China after the Tiananmen Square massacre. But he’s hardly the first President to have bungled the China question.

https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/did-president-george-hw-bush-mishandle-china

Tl;dr — This President was the real deal, and he is totally forgotten.
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I humbly disagree. George Bush sr. was a brazen war criminal who had horrible policies sugar coated with civility and decorum.

Among others he:

1. Invaded Panama over a drug dealer that he himself paid as cia director and supported, committing horrible atrocities and war crimes

3. As CIA director he oversaw the bloody operation condor

4. Showed blithe disregard for Iranian civilians killed by an American missile on an airplane (flight 655)

5. Invaded Iraq through lies, committing even more war crimes

6. Involved in Iran contra

7. Escalated and exacerbated the drug war

8. Indifferent to the AIDS crisis

9. Accused of sexual assault

10. Nominated Clarence Thomas

To be fair, his worst actions as president were foreign policy related; I don’t really know too much of his domestic policies. However, just by looking at his foreign policy alone he was a terrible president.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/static.theintercept.com/amp/the-ignored-legacy-of-george-h-w-bush-war-crimes-racism-and-obstruction-of-justice.html

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/

http://inthesetimes.com/article/21625/george_h_w_bush_legacy_kind_gentle_civility_panama_iran_contra_iraq_legacy

https://therealnews.com/stories/george-h-w-bush-war-criminal-cia-spy-oil-tycoon-embodiment-of-us-elite

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/george-h-w-bushs-presidency-erased-people-with-aids-so-did-the-tributes-to-him/amp
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