What are the critiques in Bush’s Foreign Policy?

Joseph Nye stated that the administration has neglected and even weakened America’s considerable soft power capabilities through its over-reliance on military power. Mark Helprin was highly critical of the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He labelled it as a “phony war” and faulted the Bush Administration for failing to pursue an across-the-board buildup of American military power that would allow it to act unilaterally against terrorism. Craig Eisendrath presented a liberal critique of that war asserting that a more effective strategy against terrorism would be based on advocating human rights, economic and social development, and supporting international institutions such as the International Criminal Court. A final critique of note is not so much about Bush’s foreign policy as it is the Wilsonian tradition in general, Colin Dueck writes that the problems Bush faced in Iraq were not caused by his unilateralist approach but the repeated failure of the failure of those pursuing a Wilsonian agenda of global transformation to allocate sufficient resources to it.

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