Editing Francis Fukuyama (section)

===Neoconservatism===
As a key [[Reagan Administration]] contributor to the formulation of the [[Reagan Doctrine]],{{Citation needed|reason=No source given anywhere to verify this|date=July 2023}} Fukuyama is an important figure in the rise of [[neoconservatism]], although his works came out years after [[Irving Kristol]]'s 1972 book crystallized neoconservatism.<ref>[[Irving Kristol]] (1972), ''On the Democratic Idea in America'', New York: Harper.</ref> Fukuyama was active in the [[Project for the New American Century]] think tank starting in 1997, and as a member co-signed the organization's 1998 [[Project for the New American Century#Open letter to President Clinton on Iraq|letter]] recommending that President [[Bill Clinton]] support Iraqi insurgencies in the overthrow of then-President of [[Iraq]] [[Saddam Hussein]].<ref name=PNACClinton>{{cite web| url=http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909200819/http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm| archive-date=September 9, 2008| title=Letter to President Clinton on Iraq| access-date=August 16, 2008| author=Abrams, Elliott| date=January 26, 1998| format=PDF| display-authors=etal| url-status=usurped| df=mdy-all| author-link=Elliott Abrams}}</ref> He was also among forty co-signers of [[Bill Kristol|William Kristol's]] September 20, 2001 letter to President [[George W. Bush]] after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] that suggested the U.S. not only "capture or kill [[Osama bin Laden]]", but also embark upon "a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq".<ref>{{Cite web | title = Letter to President Bush on the War on Terrorism | url = http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm | website = [[Project for the New American Century]] | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041230063728/http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm | archive-date = December 30, 2004 }}</ref>

As a supporter of the [[Iraq War]] Fukuyama defended the war against critics who accused the US of [[unilateralism]] and violating international law, saying "Americans are right to insist that there is no such thing as an '[[international community]]' in the abstract, and that nation-states must ultimately look out for themselves when it comes to critical matters of security".<ref>Francis Fukuyama, "U.S. vs. Them: Opposition to American Policies Must Not Become the Chief Passion in Global Politics," ''Washington Post'', September 11, 2002</ref>

In a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' article from February 2006, Fukuyama, in considering the ongoing Iraq War, stated: "What American foreign policy needs is not a return to a narrow and cynical realism, but rather the formulation of a 'realistic Wilsonianism' that better matches means to ends."<ref name="nyt2006">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html?pagewanted=6&sq=Francis%20Fukuyama&st=cse&scp=2|title=After Neoconservatism |date=February 19, 2006|work=The New York Times | first=Francis | last=Fukuyama | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref> In regard to neoconservatism, he went on to say: "What is needed now are new ideas, neither neoconservative nor realist, for how America is to relate to the rest of the world – ideas that retain the neoconservative belief in the universality of human rights, but without its illusions about the efficacy of American power and hegemony to bring these ends about."<ref name="nyt2006"/>