Krauthammer busts Francis Fukuyama
It was, as the hero tells it, his Road to Damascus moment. There he is, in a hall of 1,500 people he has long considered to be his allies, hearing the speaker treat the Iraq war, nearing the end of its first year, as "a virtually unqualified success." He gasps as the audience enthusiastically applauds. Aghast to discover himself in a sea of comrades so deluded by ideology as to have lost touch with reality, he decides he can no longer be one of them.......I happen to know something about this story, as I was the speaker whose 2004 Irving Kristol lecture to the American Enterprise Institute Fukuyama has now brought to prominence. I can therefore testify that Fukuyama's claim that I attributed "virtually unqualified success" to the war is a fabrication.
Fukuyama, called by some wag today "the Paul Ehrlich of geopolitics", wasn't about to let the facts get in the way of the media attention sure to lavish any repentant ex-neocon. Krauthammer sets the record straight.
Posted by dan at March 28, 2006 12:34 PM