Re Hitchens': "Fukuyama's essay betrays a secret academic wish to be living in 'normal' times once more, times that will 'restore the authority of foreign policy "realists" in the tradition of Henry Kissinger.' Fat chance, Francis! Kissinger is moribund, and the memory of his failed dictator's club is too fresh to be dignified with the term 'tradition.'"
This is one legitimate point, adrift in Hitchens' usual sea of twaddle. The
"foreign policy realists" (FPR) are and always have been as intellectually bankrupt as the infernal neocons, and the FPRs have, in fact, played a starring role in the Iraq fiasco. Let's not forget that mega-clueless viceroy Paul Bremer was Kissinger's executive assistant at the State Department and managing director of Kissinger and Associates for 11 years.
Carl