Neocons would've secured permanent hegemony for Israel and America in the ME if they had done one thing: Invade Iran right after it conquered Iraq. The war fever was high, the US military was very strong back then, Iran was not as prepared, Russia and China were nobodies, and America was internally united.

They blew it all on pointless nation-building exercises and tyring to make Iraq and Afghanistan into gay democracies. Meanwhile, they assumed Russia and China would over time simply become gay liberal states like themselves. I think they really believed in the end of history BS and assumed that liberalism was the final solution to the human question and everyone would naturally embrace it.