From The Consortium News
By Brent Budowsky

To understand the causes and consequences of the crises of our times, Americans should read carefully the manifestos of the Project For The New American Century and their deadly wrong view of the role of America, and the movement of history.

The key point is this: Mr. Fukiyama was wrong when he wrote of “The End Of History”; what was happening with the fall of communism was the End Of Empire. When the battle of the two great powers was won by the side that stood for freedom, the world was not yearning for a one-power dominated geopolitics, the core vision of the neoconservative catastrophe.

The world was yearning for freedom and democracy where America would be the leader and role model that respected and empowered, but did not dominate, others who shared our values.

The poisonous premise of the neoconservative was the arrogant, overbearing and historically catastrophic notion that the end of the Cold War meant that instead of two powers that compete to run the world, the victorious power would stand alone at the throne of world power.

With a premise so historically wrong, the result was inevitable disaster that not only discredited its advocates, but violated principles of our democracy, alienated the worldwide opinion of democratic peoples, destabilized our military, divided our nation and endangered our security.

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