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from Part III - The Post–Cold War World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
The George W. Bush administration spread democracy via its “Global War on Terror.” After the 9/11 Al Qaeda attacks, the administration fought wars to overthrow totalitarian regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq. The same mistakes were made in each: a failure to provide sufficient forces, a failure to plan for the postwar situation, a failure to prevent looting in both capitals, a failure to negotiate a peace with the overthrown regimes. The US waged conventional and counterinsurgency campaigns in each nation. Defeat in Iraq was averted by Bush’s “surge” of additional troops and a Sunni uprising against Al Qaeda. Meanwhile, the economy boomed under Bush, until the housing bubble burst in 2008. The greatest global economic crisis since the Great Depression followed.
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