First Buckley, now Francis. Nothing if not an opportunist, Fukuyama makes his new views known on MSNBC last night:

"Iraq is teetering on the brink of civil war, and the reason is the failure of neoconservativism, says Francis Fukuyama.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, AUTHOR, ?AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS?: It was an overestimation, I think, of the importance of American power in bringing about the, you know, democracy in general.

O?DONNELL: What?s stunning is that Fukuyama is one of the leading architects of neoconservatism. But three years after the invasion, he now says it was misused in Iraq.

FUKUYAMA: You know, conservatism is as American as apple pie. This is a long-standing tradition, this American idealism, to see ourselves as a model for the rest of the world.

O?DONNELL (on camera): So what?s wrong?

FUKUYAMA: You know, the problem, really, was the overmilitarization of the means. I think we?ve spread democracy through political influence, through the example that we set, through funding.

O?DONNELL (voice-over): In his new book, Fukuyama says the Bush doctrine, launching preemptive wars to defend America, it is now in shambles.

(on camera): How have your friends, other neoconservatives, reacted to you speaking out?

FUKUYAMA: I suspect a lot of people are sharpening their knives as we speak."