The foreign policy of Dwight Eisenhower

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Eisenhower left office with a mixed foreign policy record, one that leaves scholars in continued disagreement.

On the one hand, he ended hostilities in Korea and ensured eight years of peace and prosperity in the nation, instituted sharp limitations on defense spending, practiced continued containment of the Soviet Union without the previous costs in blood and money, and showed overall astuteness and restraint in the exercise of American power.

On the other hand, he extended the Cold War into the third world and failed to distinguish between nationalism and Communism, with disastrous future consequences.

He also failed in his effort to halt the militarization of U.S. foreign policy and American life and the rise of what he labeled the “Military-Industrial Complex.”

To his credit, he openly admitted that failure in his farewell speech and warned his fellow citizens of what might follow.



Source credit: Professor Mark Stoler, University of Vermont
 
Nordberg said:
Ike was changed by WW2. He was doing all he could to avoid another one. Many soldiers are changed by the experience.. That is why people like Trump who talk about war so often usually avoided going . It is TV and movies to them.
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Not the first time the Dementia Don has confused movies with reality. Sad.

Worse are all the MAGAt cracker retards who do the same.
 
Cypress said:
Eisenhower left office with a mixed foreign policy record, one that leaves scholars in continued disagreement.

On the one hand, he ended hostilities in Korea and ensured eight years of peace and prosperity in the nation, instituted sharp limitations on defense spending, practiced continued containment of the Soviet Union without the previous costs in blood and money, and showed overall astuteness and restraint in the exercise of American power.

On the other hand, he extended the Cold War into the third world and failed to distinguish between nationalism and Communism, with disastrous future consequences.

He also failed in his effort to halt the militarization of U.S. foreign policy and American life and the rise of what he labeled the “Military-Industrial Complex.”

To his credit, he openly admitted that failure in his farewell speech and warned his fellow citizens of what might follow.



Source credit: Professor Mark Stoler, University of Vermont
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My dad’s favorite President.
 
Yakuda said:
I'm trying to remember the last decent democrat president. This will take a while
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In retrospect I thought Clinton was pretty good.
He made a course correction after the first midterms and basically became a Republican ideologically.
As far as that Monica thing, who could blame him being married to that loathsome skank?
It was unfair throwing her under the bus though. That was a pretty shitty thing to do.
 
anonymoose said:
In retrospect I thought Clinton was pretty good.
He made a course correction after the first midterms and basically became a Republican ideologically.
As far as that Monica thing, who could blame him being married to that loathsome skank?
It was unfair throwing her under the bus though. That was a pretty shitty thing to do.
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I think if I had to pick a good democrat president it would be Jimmy carter. I say that only to the extent that I believe his heart was in the right place even though he didn't seem to know what he was doing.
 
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