neo con Fukuyama backs Obama

[ensho]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080527/21/170xi.html


Fukuyama backs Obama for US presidency


He is one of America's most famous neo-conservatives and his ideas on the spread of democracy have informed the Bush administration's foreign policy.

But Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History and Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, is now a sharp critic of US President George W Bush and has even come out as a supporter of Democrat frontrunner Barack Obama for president.

Professor Fukuyama is particularly scathing about the Bush policy in Iraq but he says that regardless of who is elected to lead it next, the United States is about to undergo a significant transformation.

In Sydney as a guest of Sydney University United States Studies Centre, Professor Fukuyama spoke with The World Today's Eleanor Hall.

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you can read what the creep said, while trying to avoid prison (aren't they all)

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. A great one to take advice from.

[islandmkl]

2. Karl Rove being quoted by Hillary...

between clinton family visits to fauxnews

[NashVegas]

And This Shocks You .. Why, Exactly?

[ensho]

5. shock? what shock? you are making stuff up

nt

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Fukuyama Is A Former Neocon

To his credit, he was the first of that foul bunch to recognize that the neocon view of history and the world is deeply, deeply flawed. Several years ago I heard him discuss how wrong they'd been in an extensive interview on NPR.

[ozymandius]

8. Granted that allowance.

He would have been one of the accused Nazis on trial at Nuremberg to walk.

[anonymous171]

4. I'll take this neocon over Kristol anyday.

[ensho]

7. not me! that will be the day I trust a neo con

nt

[Alexander]

6. I'll take Fukuyama over Rove, Murdoch and Scaife any day.

For those of us who are college-educated, Fukuyama is required reading in any International Relations Theory class.

The man is an intellectual first and a neocon second. Guilt-by-association tricks aren't going to work here.

[ensho]

9. you can have him

nt

[Alexander]

11. And Hillary can have Murdoch and Scaife - she sought their endorsements.

Obama did not seek the endorsement of Fukuyama.

[Enrique]

10. I'd rather have Pastor Wright

[insanity]

12. Fukuyama is legit

I had to read him my freshman year of college in political philosophy, and while I've never completely been sold on his philosophy, I think he is a top-rate academic.

[ensho]

13. and he is a top-rate neo con

nt

[insanity]

14. Ugh

There is a difference between academic neoconservatism and the philosophy of Bush's regime.

I don't really want to take time to actually explain it because intellectualism is lost on a lot of people in this forum. Suffice to say it exists.

Read up on the history of it a bit, I bet you'd be surprised to learn that most of the academic neocons were socialists who became disillusioned with sovietism and thought that democracy could leverage the world to be a more equitable place. I don't buy it btw.

[LSK]

15. now if only we can get Hillary to stop being a NeoCon