The Beginning of the End of the Adventure - New York Times

I wouldn't count on it. These idiots have been at this for over 20 years, I don't think they are through.

Their entire indentities are wrapped up in their ideology.

The Beginning of the End of the Adventure - New York Times:

Until the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah broke out on July 12, the foreign policy pursued by the Bush administration in its second term was a source of increasing consternation to those who had most fervently supported its aspirations to rid the world of evildoers, that is, the thinkers and policy analysts identified with muscular neoconservatism. Writing in The Weekly Standard, William Kristol, the magazine's editor, accused the administration of pursuing policies that had allowed North Korea to test missiles with impunity and that had left the regime in Tehran 'sitting pretty,' in short, of pursuing a 'Clintonian' foreign policy, which is about as severe a condemnation as any upstanding neoconservative can deploy.

For her part, Danielle Pletka, a Middle East expert at the American Enterprise Institute, recently told an interviewer, 'I don't have a friend in the administration, on Capitol Hill or in any part of the conservative foreign-policy establishment who is not beside themselves with fury at the administration.'