From Afghanistan to Iran; Did the resilience of civilizations challenge Fukuyama's "end of history" theory? Seyed Atallah Mohajerani wrote in "Iran": "Iran": The collapse of the Soviet Union made America and the neo-conservatives excited and exert themselves in different ways. Fukuyama's book, in fact, was America's banner of theoretical, political, and cultural victory. Fukuyama formulated the idea of the end of history in favor of Western liberal democracy as follows: "Western liberal democracy had two great enemies in the 20th century: fascism and Nazism and communism." A sign that the challenges against America, the West and liberal democracy have not ended, but have begun. But the resistance of the Afghan fighters, although planned and more or less controlled, finally drove the US military and its allies out of Afghanistan in a cinematic and spectacular way. Read the full text here.