Over Militarized Neo-conservatism Failing in Iraq
Listening to: Luck - Minuit
From one of the architects of Neo-conservatism, Francis Fukuyama:
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, AUTHOR, “AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS”:
It was an overestimation, I think, of the importance of American power in bringing
about the, you know, democracy in general.
O‘DONNELL:
What‘s stunning is that Fukuyama is one of the leading architects of neoconservatism.
But three years after the invasion, he now says it was misused in Iraq.
FUKUYAMA:
You know, conservatism is as American as apple pie. This is a long-standing tradition,
this American idealism, to see ourselves as a model for the rest of the world.
O‘DONNELL
(on camera): So what‘s wrong?
FUKUYAMA: You
know, the problem, really, was the overmilitarization of the means. I think we‘ve
spread democracy through political influence, through the example that we set, through
funding.
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