Bush, The Elder, surely mismanaged the fall of communism.
E.g. he opposed the disintegration of Soviet union and Yugoslavia. He even went there to try to talk to them. Funny, the disintegrations in both cases happen just the next day after he left!
His reasoning was really stupid - “I want to have only one country to talk to”. Understand, I am lazy, I do not want to talk to a dozen of countries separately!
Moreover, he basically refused to help post soviet countries, so they were left for Soros to be picked (Soros was extremally active then!)
When the Communism disintegrated, there were many countries who tried to get over the scourge. But they were left on their own, with little or none help or even a guidance!
Those poor people were even voting the communists back in some cases, just because the switch was really painfull.
> Bush, The Elder, surely mismanaged the fall of communism. <
And Bush the Younger mismanaged the rise of radical Islam. Instead of crushing them as FDR crushed fascism, Bush II told us “Islam is peace.”
I voted for Bush I twice, and Bush II once (I wised up by the time Bush II ran for reelection). I now regret all three of those votes.