The 1992 hegemony doctrine drew bipartisan establishment backlash

Evidence

At the time, the foreign policy establishment critiqued these ideas harshly; the report was a political embarrassment for the elder Bush. Joe Biden called it a prescription for “literally a Pax Americana,” a US empire. Senator Alan Cranston (D-California) likewise ridiculed the document and its authors for wanting the United States to be “the one, the only main honcho on the world block, the global Big Enchilada.” The backlash was so strong that Wolfowitz believed his political career to be over. The document was revised, and a softer version replaced the original. It was not yet the neocons’ time—the 1990s were to be the era of “humanitarian imperialism,” led by Clinton and the liberal imperialists. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 430

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance openly proposed unilateral US global hegemony; Neoconservative empire-building ideas were publicly ridiculed in 1992; Elite rejection of the hegemonic DPG report marked neocons as premature in 1992 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance openly proposed unilateral US global hegemony; Neoconservative empire-building ideas were publicly ridiculed in 1992; Elite rejection of the hegemonic DPG report marked neocons as premature in 1992 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Elite rejection of the hegemonic DPG report marked neocons as premature in 1992 #exemplifies (0.85)
• Elite backlash forced the neocons’ unilateralist agenda underground in the 1990s #expands (0.82)
• The 1992 Wolfowitz report pre-declared US global hegemony and preemptive war ambitions #expands (0.80)
• Neoconservative empire-building ideas were publicly ridiculed in 1992 #corroborates (0.78)
• The Clinton era reframed US hegemony as humanitarian democracy promotion #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 459
• The Bush Doctrine legitimized unilateral preventive war and rival suppression #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 417