There's a ton of chatter about Francis Fukuyama's New York Times magazine cover story of Sunday, "After Neoconservatism." No surprise. Anything written by Fukuyama, he of "The End of History" fame, is going to carry serious weight. I read it, and found that while it is a nice overview of some of the foreign policy problems the U.S. has experienced since 9/11, it is not particularly insightful or original. I'm with Roger Simon in that the main point of this piece is for Fukuyama to publicly distance himself from the neocon movement, which he was only tangentially -- even half-heartedly -- involved with in the first place.
I do agree with some of his conclusions, namely that the U.S. must do a better job on the non-military side of the fight against Islamism, especially funding democracy-promoting organizations. The "hearts and minds" part of the project has been a dismal failure so far, due at least in part to the rank incompetence of State Department bureaucrats.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 8:41 AM
