Huntington somehow gets away with the truth bomb: Islam and the West have been enemies for fourteen hundred years, and will continue to be for as long as both civilization exist.
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Neocons are evangelical moral universalists, so Fukuyama was one, but Huntington certainly wasn't.
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Replying to @Outsideness
The meaning of the term has shifted then, Huntington used to be considered an influence, fukuyama an opponent/rival
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Replying to @adornofthagn
I can't make any sense out of this at all. What single tenet of Neoconservative philosophy does Huntington share?
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Replying to @Outsideness
The notion that there is a clash, though that might also be read in favour of isolationism rather than committed intervention, not sure on which side of that divide he falls
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Replying to @adornofthagn
Noticing the clash means no more that that he had a functioning central nervous system. It's not in itself an ideological commitment. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @adornofthagn
... You wouldn't have said in the early 1980s: "He's got to be a Reaganite because he thinks there's a Cold War happening."
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It's still what set neocons/republicans circa 2003 apart from leftists, democrats, old europe
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That was the "functioning nervous system" point.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I'm ofc partially influenced by how he was marketed in old europe, as the thinker of the bush warmachine, but your own judgment is shaped by your assessment that the rejection of western universalism follows from its particularity, he doesn't necessarily share it
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