Reply #19: he's pretty much an academic [View All]

[Wetzelbill]

He's a true believer in Democracy, he's not a lunatic at all costs like Wolfowitz or a greedy warmonger like Cheney. He's a neocon, but he believes in actual values. He knows what good it would to our reputation in the world if Obama is elected. He understands engagement and diplomacy are necessary. He backed the war and he was a member of PNAC, but Fukuyama believes in Democracy and promoting it, that's his big connection with them. He believe in the Democratic peace and that Democracy and Free-Markets have won out over Communism and that we should cultivate it. In the end, I don't think he believes blindly that Iraq was the right thing to do and that Democracy at the point of a gun is the best approach. Somebody with his belief set is more likely to stand back and see that his values and ideas were perverted by cronyism and corruption in Iraq, by overt warmongers who couldn't properly run a war and by GOP partisan politics.

I wouldn't say he is without sin, but if he has moved into a different realm of thinking and believes that Dems have a better vision nowadays, well, good for him. It shows that he's open-minded at least. It's a big tent, and he's more than welcome, imho.