{"id":2372,"date":"2005-09-14T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-09-14T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T13:01:50","slug":"no-de-tocqueville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/14\/no-de-tocqueville\/","title":{"rendered":"No de Tocqueville"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m such a cynic that few things can make me really angry anymore, but reading Bernard Henri-Levy’s “thoughts” about Francis Fukuyama was one of them. Nonetheless, I thank Mike<\/a> for posting this; it would have otherwise slipped by me.<\/p>\n

Fukuyama is a consummate statist, whose “end of history” thesis served as the Holy Writ of “neolib”<\/a> interventionists prior to September 11 (a.k.a. The Day Everything Changed – but not really<\/a>). I don’t really consider him a neocon; he’s above all an imperalist, no matter who occupies the White House. In any case, he does not<\/i> provide the “the first serious\u2014I mean theoretically articulated\u2014objection to the war [in Iraq].” The best Fukuyama can do is argue that it was prosecuted wrongly, but his imperialism blocks him from challenging it on principle. <\/p>\n

Then again, Bernard Henri-Levy is a moron. Worse, he is a demented quasi-philosopher who wants to remake Europe in Bosnia’s image<\/a>. If his assessment of neocons as “noble spirits who don’t do enough actual politics” isn’t proof enough of his lunacy, I don’t know what would be. Just mentioning his name in the same breath as Alexis de Tocqueville is an insult to the noble 18th-century Frenchman. Not only is he not a modern-day de Tocqueville, Henri-Levy isn’t fit to shine de Tocqueville’s boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m such a cynic that few things can make me really angry anymore, but reading Bernard Henri-Levy’s “thoughts” about Francis Fukuyama was one of them. Nonetheless, I thank Mike for posting this; it would have otherwise slipped by me. Fukuyama is a consummate statist, whose “end of history” thesis served as the Holy Writ of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}