CAIRO, March 9, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Three years after selling the Iraqi war to the Bush administration and American public, a number of influential neo-conservatives are having second thoughts, admitting Iraq is now more dangerous than before the invasion-turned-occupation, reported The Independent on Thursday, March 9.
George Will, a conservative columnist, now glumly concludes that Iraq, Iran and North Korea - the countries once described by US President George Bush as the axis of evil - "are more dangerous than when that term was coined in 2002."
William Buckley, venerable editor of The National Review, has also come to the conviction that the "American objective in Iraq has failed."
Andrew Sullivan, an influential commentator and blogmeister, is now no less pessimistic.
In a column in Time magazine this week, he says the current mess is above all a testament to American overconfidence and false assumptions, born of arrogance and naïveté.
In his forthcoming book, America at the Crossroads, Francis Fukuyama concludes that the neo-conservative legacy about democracy and power is fatally poisoned.
The most prominent intellectual who signed the 1997 "Project for the New American Century", the founding manifesto of neo-conservatism, Fukuyama now dismisses as a "farce" the neo-conservatives conviction they could drive history forward with the right mixture of power and will.
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