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by emptypockets Republican presidential candidate Governor Mike Huckabee said this weekend that it is irrelevant to his campaign that he thinks the theory of evolution is wrong. Huckabee, along with Senator Sam Brownback and Representative Tom Tancredo, asserted their disbelief in evolution last Thursday at the first Republican debate. Nevertheless, Huckabee says, his disbelief in evolution has no bearing on his qualifications to be president : "I believe that the Creation has a creator. I believe there is a God. And I believe God put this whole creative process in motion. How he did it and the time frame in which he did it, I honestly don't know. Nor do I think it's relevant to being president of the United States," Huckabee said. What's remarkable is not that Huckabee is wrong about evolution, but that he may also be wrong about whether -- for once -- it matters. It certainly was not an issue in the 2004 elections. I don't remember it being discussed, and haven't readily found any records of it. It was a peripheral issue in 2000, because in late 1999 the Kansas school board had just removed evolution from its science curriculum. Two weeks after the Kansas story made headlines, CNN asked "Is evolution a political hotels near mall of america ssue? Should presidential candidates be arguing over whether the planet is 4 billion years old...

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by emptywheel Francis Fukuyama wants you to know that he's no longer associated with Neo-Conservatism. Nope, he's done with it . Neoconservatism, as both a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something I can no longer support. I appreciate the public disavowal of the movement. But Fukuyama still doesn't get it. He imagines the intentions of the Neo-Conservatives were good, and that it was just dumb luck and inaccurate intelligence that doomed those intentions, and with them, the credibility of the movement. But successful pre-emption depends on the ability to predict the future accurately and on good intelligence, which was not forthcoming, while America's perceived unilateralism has isolated it as never before. This is a convenient self-deception, that the shitty intelligence and the inaccurate predictions were unmotivated. Here's Paul Pillar in Foreign Affairs , a journal I'd wager Fukuyama reads quite closely . In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security troops to teachers ecisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized.

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