“I happen to agree with him to an extent about Iraq not being the right war...”
Saddam had WMD, he used it, he didn’t account for its destruction as required by 17 UN resolutions and the Gulf War ceasefire. If W did nothing about him, would Saddam be a WMD threat. Of course he would.
Fukyama is never right about anything. He has no credibility.
And, at the time of the Iraq War Resolution, every intelligence agency in the free world believed this and every politician in Washington understood it.
Recall that, at the time (post-Jeffords), the Democrats controlled the Senate. And that even the Democrat Senators voted 29-22 in favor of the resolution (all 49 GOP Senators voted in favor).
In other words, everybody, literally everybody, believed it was "the right war". At the time.
And, given its success over the long run, there is no question that it is still "the right war".
...al-Qaeda has been utterly decimated.
...an island of democratic government has been established in the Middle East.
...Iran has been effectively surrounded.
...The Islamic "street" has seen who is "the strongest horse".