HaHa, former neocon Golden Boy intellectual Francis Fukuyama rubs salt in the wounds of his erstwhile friends on PNAC (Project for a New American Century – the boys that brought us the Iraq War) by promoting Europe as the model of his desired future (i.e. the End of History) rather than God-fearing America. As we know, the neocon establishment in Washington – folks like Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Richard Perle, etc – are united in their hatred of Europe, considering it an immoral cesspool, doomed to be overun by Muslim hoards. Here is Fukuyama in The Guardian:
"The End of History was never linked to a specifically American model of social or political organisation. Following Alexandre Kojève, the Russian-French philosopher who inspired my original argument, I believe that the European Union more accurately reflects what the world will look like at the end of history than the contemporary United States. The EU’s attempt to transcend sovereignty and traditional power politics by establishing a transnational rule of law is much more in line with a "post-historical" world than the Americans’ continuing belief in God, national sovereignty, and their military."
This is pure treason to the editors of the Weekly Standard. I guess Francis will no longer be on the Christmas card mailing list of Dick and Lynne Cheney.
UPDATE: Torture-enthusiast Charles Krauthammer strikes back in today’s Washington Post, smearing the European Union as essentially worthless. Krauthammer is apparently incensed that the 15 British captives were released by Iran without a massive bombing campaign.
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“The End of History was never linked to a specifically American model of social or political organisation.”
Really?
I remember the thrust of his book differently.
“I believe that the European Union more accurately reflects what the world will look like at the end of history than the contemporary United States.”
That’s what he believes NOW. He did not make any such statements, when Rifkin’s book about the European Dream came out a decade ago, I believe.
And if the EU will have some big problems in a few years (nothing major, just some normal crisis everybody is in once in a while), then Fukuyama will change his mind yet again and will say that the US has always been the best model and that the EU was also doomed to fail. He will speak about EU failure, when the EU just has a normal crisis.
I wonder how much money he is making.
@Joerg,
You may be right about Fukuyama’s fickleness, but don’t forget that The End of History was published more than a decade before the neocon’s took over the White House, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
American power in the world looked quite a bit different in those days of great optimism.
Still it’s a massively ignorant statement. That guy doesn’t seem to know a thing about Chinese history and how that is going to influence world affairs in the future.
Personally I think it’s a very bad thing that this Spengler-type “philosopher” is now counting on Europe to “fulfill the destiny of mankind”. I wish the Anglo-Fascists would just leave the world in peace.