Francis Fukuyama says it is very hard to see how developments in Iraq justify the blood and treasurer the United States has spent on the project. The conservative professor at John Hopkins University says Neo-conservatism has evolved into something he can no longer support.

His comments were published in the New York Times Magazine February 19th. In the lengthy article Fukuyama said the president and his supporters underestimated the difficulty of forcing political change in places like Iraq. He calls for a return to Wilsonianism that calls attention to how rulers treat their citizens. He says "outsiders can't impose democracy on a country that doesn't want it, demand for democracy and reform must be domestic."

He calls for new ideas on how America is to relate to the rest the world.

His New York Times Magazine commentary was based on his new book, America at the Crossroads.

--Flo Wineriter