[A-List] US imperialism: Fukuyama despairs

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Michael Keaney" 
The neocons have learned nothing from five years of catastrophe

Their zealous advocacy of the invasion of Iraq may have been a disaster,
but now they want to do it all over again - in Iran

Francis Fukuyama
Wednesday January 31, 2007

One answer is that the nature of global politics in the first decade of
the 21st century has changed in important ways. Today's world, at least
in that band of instability that runs from north Africa and through the
Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia, is characterised by
numerous weak and sometimes failed states, and by transnational actors
who are able to move fluidly across international borders, abetted by
the same technological capabilities that produced globalisation. States
such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Palestine

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CB: So, Palestine is now a state. That's progress.