Overview of America'sInternational Strategy

"Our Nation's cause has always been larger than our Nation's defense. We fight, as we always fight, for a just peace--a peace that favors liberty. We will defend the peace against the threats from terrorists and tyrants. We will preserve the peace by building good relations among the great powers. And we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent." President Bush, West Point, New York, June 1, 2002

George Bush, forty-first president of the United States (1989A-1993), is the coauthor with Brent Scowcroft of the 1998 critically acclaimed book ""A World Transformed."" He and his wife, Barbara, live in Houston, Texas, and Kennebunkport, Maine.