The Grand Plan

Simplicius has written a masterful essay on the the rise and goals of the Neocons, how they got a world full of toys with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and how they rode all them all to disaster.

He also introduces a concept going further back called the Heartland...in which the Soviet Union is located in the Heartland of all humanity (by proximity, resources, connections, etc).  The Neocon strategy all along has been to drive a wedge into this Heartland, break it apart, and take it over.  After the dissolution, there were convenient and now fully freed wedges all over.  But somehow none had the intended effect.

China is right there too, with a number of vulnerable areas as well.

Even Fukuyama disavowed the Neocons in 2006.  But they still own and operate US foreign policy.