It turns out that liberal democracy can't be forced at the barrel of a gun any more than socialist revolution. Neither Leninist-style coups nor preemptive wars can force societies to mature before their time. If anything, the Iraq debacle shows there are no short cuts to "the end of history." So says Francis Fukuyama, the neoconservative intellectual who ought to know. Read my interview with him below:
SPREADING DEMOCRACY IS NOT THE ANTIDOTE TO JIHADIST TERRORISM; THERE ARE NO SHORT CUTS...
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