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| + | Vanity Fair editor Craig Unger on the Bush family feud, neoconservatives and the Christian right}} |
| The Bush campaign and the early Bush Administration did not initially appear to exhibit strong support for neoconservative principles. | | The Bush campaign and the early Bush Administration did not initially appear to exhibit strong support for neoconservative principles. |
− | As a candidate Bush argued for a restrained foreign policy, stating his opposition to the idea of "[[nation-building]]"<ref>[http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/2117601/detail.html Bush Begins Nation Building] WCVB TV, April 16, 2003</ref> and an early foreign policy confrontation with China was handled without the vociferous confrontation suggested by some neoconservative thinkers." [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/6/194726.shtml Vernon 2001]. Also early in the Administration, some neoconservatives criticized Bush's Administration as insufficiently supportive of the State of [[Israel]], and suggested Bush's foreign policies were not substantially different from those of President Clinton.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=QHJ1ZM3SQVGJTQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2001/06/27/wbush27.xml]Bush accused of adopting Clinton policy on Israel] [[The Daily Telegraph]], June 26, 2001 | + | As a candidate Bush argued for a restrained foreign policy, stating his opposition to the idea of "[[nation-building]]" [http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/2117601/detail.html] Bush Begins Nation Building] WCVB TV, April 16, 2003 and an early foreign policy confrontation with China was handled without the vociferous confrontation suggested by some neoconservative thinkers." [http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/6/194726.shtml Vernon 2001]. Also early in the Administration, some neoconservatives criticized Bush's Administration as insufficiently supportive of the State of [[Israel]], and suggested Bush's foreign policies were not substantially different from those of President Clinton.[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=QHJ1ZM3SQVGJTQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2001/06/27/wbush27.xml]Bush accused of adopting Clinton policy on Israel] [[The Daily Telegraph]], June 26, 2001 |
| But Bush's policies seemed to change dramatically immediately after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. | | But Bush's policies seemed to change dramatically immediately after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]]. |