It is with great sadness that today I am holding the first ever "Ideological Funeral" at Jim-Rose.com. Like David Brock and John McCain before him, today we look back and remember a once great foreign policy mind who has decided to abandoned his philosophical home and enter the land of media delights and Upper-East-side admiration: Francis Fukuyama.He broke with the "neocons" over the Iraq war, now saying he had reservations before we invaded but decided not to say anything until the media gave it a Vietnam makeover (think "Viet Cong Eye for the Iraqi Guy"), thus appearing quite the sage to the NPR groupies. He made his "break" with the Right by endorsing John Kerry for president in 2004, an action that would be bad enough but pales in comparison to his most recent faux pas: "fabrication."
Fukuyama says the real moment or revelation (the end of his "road to Damascus" to use Krauthammer's words) was during a speech being given by Krauthammer to the American Enterprise Institute in which he allegedly stated the Iraq war was a huge success. Krauthammer said no such thing, and he proves it in his column today.
The big-guns in the Blogosphere are coming to the fore on this subject:
The good Captain calls it the "Fukuyama Two-Step";
Glenn Reynolds says Fukuyama was almost always wrong anyway, and his readers have some pithy comments;
Sister Toldjah says Francis has been caught in a big one;
Hugh Hewitt's take;
D.C.'s in the hizzy.
Please feel free to pay your respects in the comments section of this post. I will be publishing some of the more creative eulogies as they appear. Thank you for coming.
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