ft office in disgrace. The Vietnam War and the Cambodia bombing followed by Watergate warned the American people about the dangers of an increasingly autonomous national security bureaucracy headed by an accountable president. (Rosatii) Congress passed the War Powers act of 1973, which set limits on the use of U.S. troops in hostile areas without declaration of war of congressional authorization. It also set up committees in Congress to over see the actions of the CIA. This substantially changed the United States foreign policy toward third world counties. We still to this day engage in covert activity and support the local paramilitary groups favorable to United States polices, it seems less likely that the United States would engage its own troops without authorization from Congress. From 1948 to 1968 much of United States foreign policy was established. It was based on the Cold War and fear of communism. Now the Cold War is over, but the US still engages in activities in third world counties to promote our ideology and encourage democracy. ...
