The Brian Lehrer Show: Pride Goeth Before A Fall?

The Brian Lehrer Show

Pride Goeth Before A Fall?

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

After September 11, 2001, neocon philosopher Francis Fukuyama signed his name to a letter urging President Bush to overthrow Saddam Hussein. But with Iraq now teetering on the brink of civil war, Fukuyama says the neoconservative movement was fundamentally mistaken about what America could achieve in the Middle East. Plus: Michael Gordon on damning claims about military decision before the Iraq war; a neocon reconsiders his views; and a call-in about Pi day

Snake in the Orchard

Michael R. Gordon, chief military correspondent for the New York Times and co-author of Cobra II: The inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq (Random House, 2006)
-details damning revelations about military decisions at the start of the Iraq war

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March Madness

Gene Wojciechowski, senior national columnist for ESPN.com,
and
Juan Manuel Garcia Pasalacua, senior political analyst for the San Juan Star, talk show host on Radio WUNO in San Juan and political analyst for WAPA television

» Gene Wojciechowski's columns
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Neo-Neocon

Francis Fukuyama, professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University, former member of the President's Council on Bioethics and author, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy (Yale University Press, 2006)
-on Iraq and the future of neoconservativism

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Juan Gonzalez: proposed Randalls Is. water park a dud (NY Daily News)

City spends more than $1m a year on prison chaplains (NY Sun)

Blog posts celebrity sightings ...

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