The Influence Of George Bush Childhood On Foreign Policy
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George W Bush, the first child of former president George H W Bush and Barbara Bush, was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 6, 1946. Along with his four siblings, George Bush was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas.
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George Bush’s childhood had a lot of influence on America’s foreign policy. In fact even before George Bush became the president, he had unilateralist ambitions for his country’s foreign policy.
Bush has always wanted to build the United States dominance after the conclusion of the Cold War era. George has always wanted to make America the only military superpower with the moral authority to make renegade countries comply with democratic norms.
George Bush has always believed that diplomacy is ineffective with so-called rogue states and these states only respond to the use of force. This belief is popularly known as Political Realism. This belief could have stemmed from Bush’s childhood when he lost his younger sister, Robin, in 1953 to child leukemia and he had to go through a lot emotionally, including being there for his mother. A lot also has to be attributed to the fact that George Bush always loved baseball as a child and he was famous in school for organizing baseball games whenever time permitted.
Unfortunately for George Bush and the United States, his foreign policy has not brought the results that were envisaged. This could be because George Bush believes that one-cure solution is the way forward for all troublesome states when experience tells us otherwise.
It is about time that George Bush and the United States takes a deep breath and has a relook at their foreign policy. Obviously something is going wrong somewhere and it needs to be rectified.
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