Neoconservative movement debunked by neoconservative
The neoconservative movement is dead, according to one of its architects, Francis Fukuyama:
I'm not shedding any crocodile tears over this one.
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".
Going further, he says the movements' advocates are Leninists who "believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practised by the United States".
I'm not shedding any crocodile tears over this one.
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