Francis Fukuyama once the darling of Neo-Con’s has turned his back on them.

Fukuyama, of course, once claimed in his The End of History and the Last Man, that the world was on a glide-path to liberal, free-market democracy.

The neo-cons’ first error was impatience. The second was a belief that an all-powerful US would be trusted with “benevolent hegemony”.

The third was the overstatement of the threat posed by radical Islam to justify the doctrine of preventive war.

Finally, there was the contradiction between the neo-cons’ aversion to Government meddling at home and their childlike faith in their ability to impose massive social engineering in foreign and utterly unfamiliar states.