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America's defense posture are areas that she has studied for years, both as a professor of political science at Stanford University and as a Russia specialist on the National Security Council in the first two years of the Bush administration.
Now she plays what she calls "quarterback" for a disparate foreign policy team, the "Vulcans," whose mission is to prove that Mr. Bush has enough global brainpower to be president. (The advisers take their name from the ancient god of the forge, whose statue is a symbol of Birmingham, Ala., Ms. Rice's hometown.)
Among the Vulcans, Ms. Rice is closest by far to Mr. Bush, whom she is leading in a grand global tutorial as she tries to convince others that what he lacks in international knowledge and experience he makes up for in what she calls "good instincts."
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She takes a dim view of American military intervention, particularly for humanitarian reasons, but declines to specify the circumstances in which the use of force would be justified. She proposes "perhaps skipping a generation" of weapons technology to build armed forces that are "lighter and more lethal," but won't say which hardware
and weapons systems could be sacrificed.
Speaking before the summit meeting of the leaders of South and North Korea, she labeled North Korea a "rogue state" but did not lay out a scenario for dealing with it except to say that "the North Koreans should know that this is not all positive carrots, that there's a potential stick out there." And she calls America's one-China policy, a linchpin of American foreign policy that regards Taiwan as part of
mainland China, a "holding device."
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