Fukuyama's Piece in the NY Times

Fascinating piece. I am not going to go too far to explain the nuts and bolts of it. Read it. I am currently doing as much. And trying to figure out how to respond.

I feel as if I agree with a lot of the analysis he offers about the failure of neoconservatism, although I can't quite say I follow his tract completely. As he himself argues his work believes that there is an unavoidable marxist (materialist) development that will eventually end in modernized society and associatedly in liberal democracy. I have never been one for a materialist assumption of futurity, so I can't quite agree. But Fukuyama, someone I once dismissed as being just one of those neocons...he is gaining greater credence in my view. And I look forward to his new book.

An interesting place wehre I think we cross is in our view of hegemony and the associated strong response. Interesting, huh Brian? Quotation here:

Radical Islamism is a byproduct of modernization itself, arising from the loss of identity that accompanies the transition to a modern, pluralist society. It is no accident that so many recent terrorists, from Sept. 11's Mohamed Atta to the murderer of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London subway bombers, were radicalized in democratic Europe and intimately familiar with all of democracy's blessings. More democracy will mean more alienation, radicalization and — yes, unfortunately — terrorism.