Francis Fukuyama on the End of the Neocons

"[T]he neoconservative position articulated by people like Kristol and Kagan was, by contrast, Leninist; they believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States."

I've always taken Fukuyama with a grain of salt since I thought the idea of "The End of History" was preposterous. Rather a lot of history has stubbornly continued to happen since that essay.