Krauthammer on Fukuyama

Another voice is heard on Fukuyama's change of heart. I quoted Niall Ferguson in relation to Fukuyama's book on Sunday. Krauthammer is a bit miffed, mainly due to Fukuyama taking him to task in his book related to statements that Krauthammer never actually made.

I happen to know something about this story, as I was the speaker whose 2004 Irving Kristol lecture to the American Enterprise Institute Fukuyama has now brought to prominence. I can therefore testify that Fukuyama's claim that I attributed "virtually unqualified success'' to the war is a fabrication.

A convenient fabrication -- it gives him a foil and the story drama -- but a foolish one because it can be checked. The speech was given at the Washington Hilton before a full house, carried live on C-SPAN and then published by the American Enterprise Institute under its title "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World.'' (It can be read here)

Go read this piece and then go to the link that Krauthammer provides to his lecture transcript. That is an informative look at the various foreign policy methods that have been used in the US.