Grab Your Wooden Stakes!

The neo-conservatives are today's vampires. They push dark agendas that suck the live-blood out of people and nations in order to create conformists societies that fit their comfort zone. In Sunday's NYTimes, Francis Fukuyama (remember his end of history?) put out a piece on the failure of neo-conservatism. So, ok, we'll give Frank points for finally getting to the party, even though he's seriously late.

Frank has been very friendly and warming to the neo-cons in the past, but something seems to have triggered the logic cells in his brain and he's starting to note that just because we think everyone should live in a democracy, it's not, necessarily, the default position that nations resort to if their current leadership is removed. (Remember Kristol and Kagan's wisdom that the way the Cold War ended was proof that using American power to defeat totalitarianism would automatically pave the way for democracy?) Well Frank seems to have finally figured out that this is about as short-sighted a view of the world as one could possibly have.

No doubt Frank's next essay will share with us his personal revelation that the world is not flat.