Fukuyama, neoconservatism, etc.

Jonah Goldberg talks about the the End of History, and analyzes Fukuyama's new book, America at the Crossroads. The article is terrific -- as Goldberg notes, most of what has been written about 'neoconservatism' is either badly misinformed, horribly biased, reflexively anti-Bush, and synonymous with 'Jewish conservative.' Fukuyama apparently "explains" neoconservatism more accurately than most, but, as Goldberg notes, quoting Paul Berman, “'Neither his old arguments nor his new ones... offer much insight into this, the most important problem of all — the problem of murderous ideologies and how to combat them.'”

Jonah Goldberg is at his best near the end of the essay, however, noting that Fukuyama's greatest mistake is the assertion that America's military might is reflected in the phrase "When your only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, you tend to think of all problems as nails." The Europeans, however, are the ones missing tools in their toolbox. When they see rusty nails, they can merely hope to make rusty coatracks or hope they don't get tetanus. That's not a solution.