De Neo Conservatieven

Dr. Richard Drayton, die geschiedenis doceert aan de Cambridge University, schrijft in The Guardian een uitstekend achtergrondartikel over het ideologisch failliet van de Bush regering. 'Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on America's neocons Iraq has shown the hubris of a geostrategy that welds the philosophy of the Leviathan to military and technological power Richard Drayton. The tragic irony of the 21st century is that just as faith in technology collapsed on the world's stock markets in 2000, it came to power in the White House and Pentagon. For the Project for a New American Century's ambition of "full-spectrum dominance" - in which its country could "fight and win multiple, simultaneous major-theatre wars" - was a monster borne up by the high tide of techno euphoria of the 1990s. Ex-hippies talked of a wired age of Aquarius. The fall of the Berlin wall and the rise of the internet, we were told, had ushered in Adam Smith's dream of overflowing abundance, expanding liberty and perpetual peace. Fukuyama speculated that history was over, leaving us just to hoard and spend. Technology meant a new paradigm of constant growth without inflation or recession.' Lees verder: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1674403,00.html Of: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11398.htm