don't believe the hype

Here is a very interesting article regarding the events preceding and the consequences of the Iraq war. The main thrust of the article (I think) is that the Iraq war has damaged the reputation of the neoconservative movement, and the U.S. must rethink it's foreign policy or face isolation from the rest of the world. It's by Francis Fukuyama, a fairly influential political scientist who argued for the Iraq war post-9/11 but now appears to realise it wasn't the right way to bring democracy to the world.