This March Yale University Press will publish a paperback edition of Francis Fukyama’s America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and Neoconservatism, which has been selected as a CHOICE outstanding academic book for 2007.

This edition features a new foreword by the author, who argues that the neoconservatives have learned nothing in the last five years, as they are now fervently calling for an invasion of Iran although their actions in Iraq resulted in disaster.

In an excerpt of the preface published in The Guardian last week, Fukuyama writes:

What I find remarkable about the neoconservative line of argument on Iran, however, is how little changed it is in its basic assumptions and tonalities from that taken on Iraq in 2002, despite the momentous events of the past five years and the manifest failure of policies that neoconservatives themselves advocated. What may change is the American public’s willingness to listen to them.

The full excerpt can be found here.