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Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Why vulcans? I've only heard this term applied to them once before, and I think it was [tw].
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A core group of vulcans is found in the 40 founding members of "Project for a New American Century". They include but should not be limited to Elliott Abrams, Richard L. Armitage, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Paula Dobriansky, Midge Decter, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Dan Quayle, Condoleezza Rice, Peter W. Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, and Robert B. Zoellick.
Fundamental to understanding why we now attack another nation only on our fears is the Doctrine called preemption as defined by the PBS Frontline story called
War behind Closed Doors:
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>NARRATOR: The weapons inspectors had left in 1998 and were never to return. To the hard-liners, Saddam had won.
Around this time, a group of foreign policy wisemen known as "the Vulcans" were descending on Austin, Texas, to prepare the eventual Republican nominee for the White House. At the governor's mansion, the hawks, the moderates and all varieties of Republicans came to bring the young governor of Texas up to speed about the world.
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For more informaton:
The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
I am rather surprised you did not hear the Vulcans being described repeatedly in this week's news. Principles of this core group are being questioned as they saw world in terms of Axis of Evil and other traditional fears such as China and Russia and the solution being preemption.
In the meantime, this commentary from a British government minister provides an example of the agenda that vulcans in Project for a New American Century were grappling with as vulcans struggled to define their agenda:
Comment-This war on terrorism is bogus
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1992 First Draft of a Grand Strategy
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has been at the center of Pentagon strategic planning in both Bush administrations. A hawk on the use of U.S. military power, Wolfowitz took the lead in drafting the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance on America's military posture toward the world. The draft said that containment was an old idea, a relic of the cold war. It advocated that America should maintain military strength beyond challenge and use it to preempt provocations from rogue states with weapons of mass destruction. And it stated that, if necessary, the U.S. should be prepared to act alone. Leaked to the press, Wolfowitz's draft was rewritten and softened by then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. Ten years later, many analysts see a strong resemblance between President Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy and Wolfowitz's 1992 draft.
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Finally you should view the pre Iraq War report from PBS yourself.
The War Behind Closed Doors