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Fukuyama's hypocrisy
Daily Kos — ... Francis Fukuyama in the WSJ is trying once again to elide his history as a neocon and retrospectively align himself instead with the critics of everything he once stood for. Turns out he warned a friend, in private, that invading Iraq might not work out so well - he says. This bit is particularly hilarious: ...

Eyewitness to hysteria
Daily Kos — ... of backing the neocon project to overthrow Hussein. In an op-ed Fukuyama twitted George Bush for legitimizing "regime change" by invading Iraq, without however acknowledging that for years he'd advocated exactly that as a member of PNAC. A suprising number of commenters sprang to his defense. Didn't I know that Fukuyama had broken with the neocons some time ago? Some here are even credulous about his unsupported claim that he came out in opposition to the invasion way back in 2002 - although he's on record as supporting the decision to invade ...

Blowing Opportunities
Antiwar.com Original — T here's not much point denying it, even though many people who have long opposed this stupid war might want to do so. One of the reasons, of course, as renegade neocon Francis Fukuyama wrote recently ( in the Wall Street Journal , of all places!), is that if you do say that Iraq has become more stable, war supporters immediately claim that you're conceding that they were right all along . But their intellectual dishonesty shouldn't lead us to the same error. So it's true that as of about now violence and attacks on U.S. and Iraqi government troops and ...