Krauthammer nails Fukuyama’s lie

By John Cheeran
In contemporary American journalism, there is none clearer in thoughts than Charles Krauthammer.
His column in Washington Post is a delight to read and must provoke those liberal woolies not just in the United States, but in India too.
I have read Krauthammer, a die-hard conservative, quoting Leon Trotsky in the past to prove his point. “Everyone has a right to be stupid, but don’t abuse that right.”
Karuthammer could well have told these lines to Francis Fukuyama.
Apparently, Fukuyama has fabricated a few lines to attribute it to Krauthammer in the preface to his new book, "America at the Crossroads."
Fukuyama writes that Krauthammer called Iraq war a unqualified success in 2004 during a lecture.
Krauthammer, in his Washington Post column, has exposed Fukuyama’s allegation in his usual, blunt manner. But it does not cease to amaze me that why on earth men such as Fukuyama, in order to bolster their grand designs, commit such basic sins.
How long anyone can hang onto a lie, a printed lie that is, in this digital age?
Krauthammer rightly points out that his argument then, as now, was the necessity of this undertaking, (Iraq war) never its ensured success.
“And it was necessary because, as I said, there is not a single, remotely plausible, alternative strategy for attacking the root causes of Sept. 11: "The cauldron of political oppression, religious intolerance, and social ruin in the Arab-Islamic world -- oppression transmuted and deflected by regimes with no legitimacy into virulent, murderous anti-Americanism."
You said it, Krauthammer.