Ajidica
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The less said about the 'Reagan Revolution' in foreign policy and his savaging of the civil service the better if you are looking for good things about him.
To add some substance to this post, if we are looking at post-WWII presidents, I would actually put Clinton in the bottom half. Sure, the economy was doing great under him but it would have performed well even if we had a particularly unambitious oyster as president. His domestic policies were simply adequate and his foreign policy was particularly uninspired and haphazard when operating on a level beyond empty rhetoric when push came to shove. His failure to get Arafat to negotiate at Camp David set the Israeli-Palestinian kerfuffle back by a decade and squandered a lot a goodwill between the two sides. His approach to Africa's World War was useless, and the incompetence and sheer ill-will shown to UNAMIR after the scale of the genocide was established was staggering. The most powerful country in history couldn't be bothered to mobilize some rapid response units to UNAMIR requests for assistance to protect refugees? Color me unconvinced.
To add some substance to this post, if we are looking at post-WWII presidents, I would actually put Clinton in the bottom half. Sure, the economy was doing great under him but it would have performed well even if we had a particularly unambitious oyster as president. His domestic policies were simply adequate and his foreign policy was particularly uninspired and haphazard when operating on a level beyond empty rhetoric when push came to shove. His failure to get Arafat to negotiate at Camp David set the Israeli-Palestinian kerfuffle back by a decade and squandered a lot a goodwill between the two sides. His approach to Africa's World War was useless, and the incompetence and sheer ill-will shown to UNAMIR after the scale of the genocide was established was staggering. The most powerful country in history couldn't be bothered to mobilize some rapid response units to UNAMIR requests for assistance to protect refugees? Color me unconvinced.