Fukayama unloads
Fukayama unloads on the Neocons (his word) and their invasion of Iraq. Fukayama still shares several of the neocon's philosophical presumptions, but with the knowledge of an insider, he tears apart the neocon philosophical rationale on Iraq.
This is a bit of a wonk piece, but if you're interested in the neocon ideological debate, this long article is worth a read. It's also quite interesting to me in that it shows how far from realism these guys are in their think tanky foreign policy analysis. It's more about making a coherent theoretical argument than dealing with the real world.
And the soldiers and the rest of us are left to deal with the real world results.
This is a bit of a wonk piece, but if you're interested in the neocon ideological debate, this long article is worth a read. It's also quite interesting to me in that it shows how far from realism these guys are in their think tanky foreign policy analysis. It's more about making a coherent theoretical argument than dealing with the real world.
And the soldiers and the rest of us are left to deal with the real world results.
posted by mikevotes at
8:41 AM
5 Comments:
The real world, as we all know, is messy, and truly is no place for a patriotic neocon.
No, we must be shelterd from such nastiness so that we may consider in a vacuum void of the mainstream-media's America hating propaganda the more important issues of the day, such as...do think tanks have bathrooms?
By
Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker, at 9:33 AM
Remember in 2000, when Bush said he wasn't interested in nation building.....
By
Lew Scannon, at 5:10 PM
Yeah, I remember that. The one that I've been hearing in my head for the last 2 1/2 years is "humble foreign policy."
Mike
By
mikevotes, at 5:46 PM
The neoconservatives might be called nonconservatives. Or protofascists.
By
gary, at 10:27 AM
Yeah, gary, there's alot of that in their theory. It is littered with the concepts of American exceptionalism and a certain "specialness" that American has a role as benevolent empire.
I tend to shy away from the word fascist, even though it applies because of its historical ties, much like the Nazi comparison. In terms of foreign policy, the US is behaving much like an early Nazi empire, but, at the same time, the parallel gets just overwhelmed by the extermination policies of which there is no parallel in the US.
So, I would argue that in some ways both comparisons do apply, in some ways they don't, but because of the cultural associations, I tend to shy away from their use even if they do apply.
Mike
By
mikevotes, at 11:12 AM
Post a Comment
<< Home