When Neo-Cons Attack

I've been pretty intrigued by the recent squabble between the neocon stalwart Charles Krauthammer and the now semi-disillusioned neocon Francis Fukuyama.

In openDemocracy, there's a write up about the dispute. This is my favorite part:

Krauthammer’s almost principled disdain for European sensibilities is particularly problematic, Fukuyama argued, when one considers that “the European bottom line proved to be closer to the truth than the administration’s far more alarmist position” vis–à–vis weapons of mass destruction (WMD). “On the question of the manageability of postwar Iraq, the more skeptical European position was almost certainly right.” Despite this, Krauthammer proceeds “as if the Bush administration’s judgment had been vindicated at every turn, and that any questioning of it can only be the result of base or dishonest motives.”

Back in July, I made some similar observations about how Krauthammer sees ignorant obstinance in the French, when in reality, there was good reason for their obstinance. At least one neocon is figuring this out now.