[Bulk] Fukuyama

[Otto]

Indeed an interesting article:

"The way the cold war ended shaped the thinking of supporters of the 
Iraq war, including younger neoconservatives like William Kristol and 
Robert Kagan, in two ways. First, it seems to have created an 
expectation that all totalitarian regimes were hollow at the core and 
would crumble with a small push from outside. The model for this was 
Romania under the Ceausescus: once the wicked witch was dead, the 
munchkins would rise up and start singing joyously about their liberation."

Bush the younger as Dorothy?
Strange idea!

Otto

KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slog
> in
> 
> After Neoconservatism
> By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
> Published: February 19, 2006
>  
> (...) As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war, 
> it seems
> very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the
> ideas animating it kindly. By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created
> a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a
> training ground and an operational base for jihadist terrorists, with plenty
> of American targets to shoot at. The United States still has a chance of
> creating a Shiite-dominated democratic Iraq, but the new government will be
> very weak for years to come; the resulting power vacuum will invite outside
> influence from all of Iraq's neighbors, including Iran. There are clear
> benefits to the Iraqi people from the removal of Saddam Hussein's
> dictatorship, and perhaps some positive spillover effects in Lebanon and
> Syria. But it is very hard to see how these developments in themselves
> justify the blood and treasure that the United States has spent on the
> project to this point. (...)
> 
>  
> kwp

	

	
		
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