Thursday, February 23, 2006

Welcome to reality moron

Mr Fukuyama once supported regime change in Iraq and was a signatory to a
1998 letter sent by the Project for a New American Century to the then
president, Bill Clinton, urging the US to step up its efforts to remove Saddam
Hussein from power. It was also signed by neoconservative intellectuals, such as
Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, and political figures Paul Wolfowitz, Richard
Perle and the current defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.


However, Mr Fukuyama now thinks the war in Iraq is the wrong sort of war, in the wrong
place, at the wrong time. "The most basic misjudgment was an overestimation
of the threat facing the United States from radical Islamism," he argues.
"Although the new and ominous possibility of undeterrable terrorists armed
with weapons of mass destruction did indeed present itself, advocates of the war
wrongly conflated this with the threat presented by Iraq and with the rogue
state/proliferation problem more generally."


Mr Fukuyama, one of the US's most influential public intellectuals, concludes that "it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention [in Iraq] itself or the ideas
animating it kindly".

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