{"id":2661,"date":"2006-02-20T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-20T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:33:00","slug":"who-you-calling-a-neocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/who-you-calling-a-neocon\/","title":{"rendered":"Who You Calling a Neocon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Fukuyama <a href=http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k62y3>distances<\/a> himself from the neocons yet <a href=http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m2751\/is_76\/ai_n6127311>again<\/a>, just in time to play guru to the next bunch of crusaders at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Now he&#8217;s a &#8220;Wilsonian realist,&#8221; whatever that is. It takes a Ph.D. to keep up with all the mutations of the War Party; luckily, we have one in <a href=http:\/\/globalparadigms.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/francis-fukuyama-again-dont-shoot-im.html>Leon Hadar<\/a>, who dissects Fukuyama&#8217;s piece over on his blog. But at least Fukuyama&#8217;s analysis of his exes is satisfying, as it confirms what Antiwar.com has been saying all along:<\/p>\n<ul>[T]he neoconservative position articulated by people like [Bill] Kristol and [Robert] Kagan was, by contrast, Leninist; they believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/61\/56\/F0035600.html>Farce<\/a>? If only. I&#8217;d say its return has been pretty tragic <a href=http:\/\/antiwar.com\/casualties\/>for a lot of people<\/a>, though not for people who matter in the Grand Scheme of Things. (Thank heavens!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Fukuyama distances himself from the neocons yet again, just in time to play guru to the next bunch of crusaders at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Now he&#8217;s a &#8220;Wilsonian realist,&#8221; whatever that is. It takes a Ph.D. to keep up with all the mutations of the War Party; luckily, we have one in Leon Hadar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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-2661","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\/2661","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}