Doomed international - Frances Fukuyama

The arguments over Fukuyama’s new book have not just been among conservative think-tank intellectuals. Soon after publication the White House itself entered the brawl, sending emails citing contradictions between Fukuyama’s past statements and the positions taken in his new book, particularly his support in 1988 for the forcible overthrow of Saddam Hussein. As Tod Lindberg, Editor of the Hoover Institution’s Policy Review, put it, the Bush administration has been “more influenced by Mr. Fukuyama’s work than by that of any other living thinker”.On the sidelines, liberal commentators and reviewers in the United States have watched with a mixture of righteousness and glee the long-awaited conservative crackup over the ideological basis of the Bush administration’s foreign policy.

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