What were two of bush's foreign policy successes?

Answer 1

Although one might not call it an achievement, the more important foreign action Bush took was the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Sadaam. Perhaps the achievement was to get the support of several allies to at lease give token support of the action.

Answer 2

George W. Bush did not have any experience with foreign governments prior to becoming president. He was not respected or admired by any foreign leaders and in fact created discomfort with Angela Merkel of Germany when he touched her shoulders inappropriately.

Shortly after taking office, a US spy plane crashed in China. Bush did nothing to prevent the Chinese from obtaining state secrets or secure the return of US personnel. His approval rating was very low prior to 9/11.

He made a visit to India to assure that Indian companies would be allowed to trade with the US and compete with workers here in the US, angering the government and people of Pakistan, as he was seen as taking sides with India in their long border dispute. This created a wave of militant hatred among radical factions in Pakistan.

His only success was in persuading Tony Blair to send a small number of troops into Iraq and Afghanistan after starting a war based on lies and deception. All other countries were bullied into war and pulled their troops out within a short time. Bush bartered with countries like Poland who were eager to join the European Union, promising them membership. Poland entered the EU shortly after the start of the wars.

After the attack of 9/11, Bush squandered the goodwill that nearly all other nations had for the United States. Bush bribed other nations to go to war with the US, but it didn't work well at all.

When Tony Blair's government learned of the lies that Bush told to go to war, they covered up the lie, and Blair ultimately lost faith with the British people over it, losing his office as a result. Blair's Labor Party lost many seats in parliament over the flap, and the Labor Party lost power, ushering a right wing reactionary government.

Bush did a great deal of harm to foreign relations globally. He even went so far as to create detention camps in Eastern Poland and in Egypt and Syria and of course Cuba and sent prisoners to be tortured there because it was illegal to do it on US soil. This act alone made the US a rogue state and trust in the US government plummeted around the world.

Bush not only did not have leadership skills, but he damaged relations to such a degree that his successor was given the Nobel peace prize just for giving a speech about starting peaceful relations in Cairo. Bush will be remembered by historians as the worst US president in our history. Foreign leaders breathed a sigh of relief when Bush and Cheney left office in 2008 after creating the climate for the world economy to crash. Many around the world still think of the US as being a nation of cowboys who don't know what they're doing thanks to George W. Bush. The war in Afghanistan is still going on, terrorism was given renewed life and hundreds of thousands are dead and millions are refugees as a result of Bush's "shock and awe" terror. Bush left things a mess and thought that he was "awesome" and "famous". The world hears that and thinks "awful" and "infamous".