When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such
a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of
Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a
rock-and-roll band. But he relied upon a group called the
Vulcans--an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience
in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first
Bush administrations. After returning to power in 2001, the Vulcans
were widely expected to restore U.S. foreign policy to what it had
been under George H. W. Bush and previous Republican
administrations. Instead, the Vulcans put America on an entirely
new and different course, adopting a far-reaching set of ideas that
changed the world and America's role in it. Rise of the Vulcans is
nothing less than a detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of
the top six members of the Vulcans--Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld,
Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza
Rice--and the era of American dominance they represent. It is the
story of the lives, ideas and careers of Bush's war cabinet--the
group of Washington insiders who took charge of America's response
to September 11 and led the nation into its wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Separately, each of these stories sheds astonishing light not
only on the formative influences that brought these nascent leaders
from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, but also on the
experiences, conflicts and competitions that prefigured their
actions on the present world stage. Taken together, the individuals
in this book represent a unique generation in American history--a
generation that might be compared to the "wise men" who shaped
American policy after World War II or the "best and brightest" who
prosecuted the war in Vietnam. Over the past three decades, since
the time of Vietnam, these individuals have gradually led the way
in shaping a new vision of an unchallengeable America seeking to
dominate the globe through its military power.
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