Louis Lingg writes: "Over ten years ago, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the journal Foreign Affairs published 'The End of History' by Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama argued that civilization and humanity had reached its apex in the development of capitalist political economy and liberal democracy: there would be no future substanitve ideological challenges, no contradictions to resolve, no dialectic.

Following the 9/11 attack and the sudden realization (by some in the West) of a formidable and belligerent aversion to Western values and traditions by the Islamic world, pundits and others have proclaimed that Fukuyama was wrong.

In The Independent (UK) Francis Fukuyama insists that he was and remains right."