Francis Fukuyama backs Obama for US presidency

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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...

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

[boobooday]

1. All I can say is . . .

:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[asthmaticeog]

2. Road-to-Damascus conversion or not, all that blood's still on his hands.

He shouldn't be doing us any "favors" with his too-little-too-late endorsements.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Fukuyama is correct

we are about to undergo a significant transformation. We will either become a more repressive, fascist state, or we'll start limping back towards our Constitutional ideals. That is why I'm voting Democratic this November.

[izquierdista]

9. He can't be correct

He may be repeating someone else who is correct, but the man has never had a correct thought in his life. It probably dates back to pre-school when kids couldn't pronounce his name and just called him Frank Fuckup. Scarred him so deeply that he just continued to fuck up and fuck up and fuck up some more. Ordinarily, this would condemn one to a life on the margins of society, as a pathetic loser. However, when it was discovered that he had a spectacularly high correlation with one G. W. Bush, life began to smile upon him. We see it to this day whenever an otherwise rational human being becomes so irate at someone that they scream at them, calling them a shit-for-brains fuckup. The local Republican party immediately finds the object of this tirade and forwards the name to the White House to go on the short list for the next appointment.

[FSogol]

4. Fukuyama is a wind sock. n/t

[Fovea]

7. I have always seen him more

as a Mongolfier.

[Lerkfish]

5. you're a little late, this has been posted several times today.

It's interesting only in terms of how neocons switch the horses they pick in a race to gamble on. It's no reflection on the horse.

[uberllama42]

6. Isn't this the asshat who said we wouldn't have any more wars

after the collapse of the USSR? Between that and PNAC, I would think his credibility would by shot by now.

[nealmhughes]

8. Yep, according to his interpretation of another's interpretation of Hegel,

"history" per se would end with the advent of the universal Enlightenment ideals of representative democracy, free trade, and nationalism along with the concept of the "nation" as other than geographic subdivision would all come to a close, all "history" would then merely be chronicles of extraordinary events such as an interplanetary round trip or a new miracle fuel -- no more "history," as the Enlightenment would be fulfilled and since it is perfect, people would not wish to revert back.

Frank Fukuyama was very useful to the PNAC -- he gave an intellectual polish to the neo-imperialism that was lacking otherwise.

One is reminded of Pax Romana, the Medieval Caesaropapism, Communism and even the revolutions in France leading to the end of feudalism in Western Europe as people claiming that "history is over!"