Rise of the Vulcans

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 administrat...