On Wednesday, October
29, 2014 CNN published an article titled “What Obama Could Learn from Bush”. The
article (written by David Rothkopf) is about how “Both Bush and Obama have
overseen unsettled era of post 9/11 foreign policy.” Bush had his fair share of faults while still
in presidency, such as “the unilateralist excess of the first term of the Bush
administration; its signature error was the invasion of Iraq” as said by
Rothkopf. Later on into Bush’s term, he realized that whatever mistakes he made
needed to be solved and in his second term, Bush instituted a sweeping
reordering of his administration, its policies and priorities.
Now at the end of his
second term, Obama is finding himself “a string of errors of judgment and
execution.” His errors “have contributed to damaged relations or crises ranging
from those in Syria and Iraq to Libya to Egypt and Israel, from Ukraine to Afghanistan
to Africa. They include crises at our own borders and strained relations with
our allies over NSA eavesdropping.” Obama cannot erase what has been done
during his term, but he is going to try and prevent any other errors from occurring.
Given the fact that
Bush had his fair share of errors during his terms. Obama should look to him as
a reference to fix his own errors, “Obama must create change from within his
administration.” Not saying that Obama will follow in the steps of Bush exactly,
however he [Obama] can use his [Bush] solutions as guidance to how to fix the
problems that have occurred within the past two terms.
