Neocons learn nothing from five years of catastrophe
Guardian [UK]
by Francis Fukuyama
01/31/07
Their zealous advocacy of the invasion of Iraq may have been a disaster, but now they want to do it all over again — in Iran …. What I find remarkable about the neoconservative line of argument on Iran, however, is how little changed it is in its basic assumptions and tonalities from that taken on Iraq in 2002, despite the momentous events of the past five years and the manifest failure of policies that neoconservatives themselves advocated. What may change is the American public’s willingness to listen to them...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2002290,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Francis+Fukuyama
by Francis Fukuyama
01/31/07
Their zealous advocacy of the invasion of Iraq may have been a disaster, but now they want to do it all over again — in Iran …. What I find remarkable about the neoconservative line of argument on Iran, however, is how little changed it is in its basic assumptions and tonalities from that taken on Iraq in 2002, despite the momentous events of the past five years and the manifest failure of policies that neoconservatives themselves advocated. What may change is the American public’s willingness to listen to them...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2002290,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Francis+Fukuyama
rudkla - 1. Feb, 15:57