Iraq war ‘was a mistake,’ says Fukuyama
Big shocks change perceptions. It was January 1998 when former neocon guru Francis Fukuyama co-signed, along with Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and other hawks, a letter to then-US president Bill Clinton calling for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Now that the Iraq war is in its third year and the number of victims exceeds even the most pessimistic forecasts, the Japanese-American theoretician has abandoned the sinking ship of neoconservatism and has turned against his former friends. «I have concluded that neoconservatism, as a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something that I can no longer support,» writes Fukuyma in his latest book «After the Neocons: America at the Crossroads.» In this interview shortly before his speech at an Economist conference in Athens last week, he explains why.
