The End of Francis Fukuyama

Francis (The End of History) Fukuyama is in the UK peddling his latest minimum opus "After the Neocons" (Profile Books £12.99) and is interviewed in the Undependent on Sunday by John Rentoul (Not online).

inter alia he says ..

"Everybody points to these letters I signed, The project for the New American Century, which is basically just Bill Kristol and a Fax machine"


... ...Kristol promoted what FF now regards as an excessively militaristic brand of neoconservatism adds Rentoul.

Of course we all got it wrong, even FF did when he signed up for the 70 page statement of "militaristic brand of neoconservatism " and didn't withdraw his signature.

Easy sort of mistake to make ... one that millions of people marching through London didn't make.

Like being gung ho for the invasion of Iraq, which he and the neocons were, but the millions marching in London were totally opposed to.

Would that someone would write "The End of Francis Fukuyama". ... and throw away that overheated Fax machine in Washington.

In many ways FF reminds me of that quasi academic sage and faux novelist of the 50s/60s CP Snow (later Lord) with his presposterous notion of 2 Cultures so effectively despatched by F R Leavis.