275). Carter also believed it would be possible to pursue a detente policy with the Soviets while simultaneously pushing for human rights reforms.
The human rights underlying impetus for foreign policy was believed to be a winning strategy, and indeed, conservatives initially showed support for Carter's policies. Democrats also issued their support of Carter's program. The fusion of civil rights with foreign policy is comparable to the way FDR conjoined New Deal programs with the United Nations and its policies such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed in 1948. Carter also understood the major political and human rights blunders the United States was party to during previous generations, supporting anti-democratic and totalitarian regimes just to fight communism. Thus, human rights became a part of the strategic foreign policy objectives of Carter and the democrats. Carter applied his policy to Africa, Latin America, and various regions around the globe. Indeed, much of what Carter was doing in terms of foreign policy was the attempt to redress many of the problems that had already occurred due to American interventionism.
However, Carter's policies soon started to anger conservatives. The Panama Canal turnover was the first issue that won Carter political enemies at home. Carter's actions in Central America caused conservative backlash that...
It was however an essential move for the foreign policy of the United States in its quest for containment of the communist threat. A proper example of the way in which the decisions taken in terms of foreign policy were the reflection of the interests of political parties vs. their electorate was the Carter administration that took some of the most important steps in the discussions with the Russian Communist
In all ways, Bush sought to rule the United States like a king. Conclusion. We have seen but three of the many ways President Bush, and his puppetmaster, Vice President, Dick Cheney, sought to, and did, expand the power of the presidency. Other examples, from Cheney's ultra secret Energy Commission, to the destruction of documents and terminantion of Justice Department attorneys who would not do their bidding, abound. Taken together, it
President Johnson became even more fearful of a communist take-over. In 1964, when two American ships were attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin "the American Senate gave Johnson the power to give armed support to assist any country requesting help in defense of its freedom," effectively beginning the Vietnam War without a formal declaration of war (BBC 2009). The wide-scale bombing of the North in 'Operation
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