Francis Fukuyama: When we was necons Arthur Koestler: When we was commies Robert Kagan the Leninist Lazar Kaganovich the Stalinist By now you all know that Francis ("The End of History") Fukuyama has filed for divroce from the Kristol/Podhoretz clans. In quite a number of speeches, articles (for example) and newsbites he has made it clear to all the interested parties (including potential employers like Presidents Hillary Clinton and John McCain) that he ain't a neocon, well, not a neocon like Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, and that he now considers himself now to be what? A "reformed neocon?" A "neo-neocon?" A "neocon-Lite?" In his latest "I'm-not-a-neocon" manifesto in the New York Times, "After Neoconservatism" FF describes himself as a proponent of "realistic Wilsonianism." And in the essay (thankfully not as long as "The End of History) he does quite a lot of brilliant dialectial thinking in expla
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The second video here is poorly edited, especially the audio.
Maybe it's not my place, since I'm not exactly familiar with the finer points of video editing myself, but still...
And I could have done without the overdubbed cries and moans over the pictures. The pictures say enough without that junk.
Try to think of this as a Seinfeld episode with Olmert as a recurring character who has to deal with this Nasrallah guy during his day job.
Even though there's only a miniscule chance that he or she actually reads this blog, but still... I should have made that clear.
Speaking of narrative:
"The main subject in the Israeli press is: How could this war have been fought better?
And so it's clear that they didn't achieve what they thought they were going to achieve. And now the question is: Can they create a narrative of victory which will give them a chance to get out?"
-David Brooks
Brooks & Shields, Aug 4. 2006
It seems to this observer that things are just getting started and before things get better, they will get worse and Brooks may have to recalibrate his pitch.