Is the Iraq debate coming to an end?

[Coffeehouse]

Originally Posted by The Gaffer

Well, it's all swinging round in a new direction really (or rather, an old one). The Russian Bear has woken up again, seeing that the US and Nato are bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan (which must be a sweet irony as they spent the 80s in a similar situation). We've got a nice "Cuban Missile Crisis" de nos jours brewing with Poland's hosting of the missile defence shield. China has increasing economic clout, recession is biting in the US and Europe.

I think the military commanders are going to have a shed load of other pressures, which have been more or less absent for the past 18 years.

"The Death of History" my arse.

That would be the End of History.

But China and Russia aren't promoting a new ideological replacement to democracy and the market-economy, and that was Fukuyama's point.