Francis Fukuyama

* emptywheel tears apart Fukyama:

"Francis Fukuyama, you can't disavow Neo-Conservatism while trying to help someone avoid the consequences of the lies and politicization that disgraced Neo-Conservatism. You can't claim to disavow Neo-Conservatism if you're still investing money and your good name in defending Scooter Libby.
Before, you may have been too naive or credulous to understand that the democracy myths were just that, myths. An ignoble lie. But now, only self-deception prevents you from understanding that. Your ongoing support of Neo-Conservatism--in money and name--now comes with the culpability of knowing better. You've forsworn these lies, but not forgone them." (link)

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* in the comments at EW's, viget says:

"Not only was (Fukyama's) a non-apology apology, but rather I'd say this is the first salvo in a Great Euphemization of the neocon label.
Like death and taxes, linguistic euphemization is as close as we can get to near certainty in this world. If you've got a controversial, repugnant or otherwise negatively-connotated philosophy or idea that you refuse (or in some cases the ugly practicalities of society refuse) to let go of, just dress it up in a brand-new, shiny linguistic form, and voila, you've reinvented yourself."

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