Yale Historian Credits Bush on Foreign Policy

Acknowledging that the liberal bias of many of his peers leads them to downplay or ignore President Bush's revolution in foreign policy, Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis tells Bill Sammon of the Washington Times that Bush has instituted one of only three "grand strategies" in US history. "'The academic world is of course predominantly liberal, predominately Democratic, so there is a predisposition to be less critical of a Democratic administration than there is a Republican administration,' he said." "'There certainly has been a tendency to underestimate Bush himself and to view him in the way that Reagan was viewed when he first came in — as being a cipher, manipulated by his own advisers,' he added. 'That turned out not to be true of Reagan, and it's turning out not to be true of Bush as well.'"