Many Neoconservatives seem unable to admit that no matter how much money and blood we shed fighting to make the world a better place, the world will never be perfect. Improving the human condition is extremely difficult as the wars in Iraq and Afganistan have shown.
It is ironic that Neoconservatives are unable to admit that there is a limit to what the government can accomplish through military action, while they will readily admit that there are limits to what the government can achieve in domestic policy. The reverse Irony exists for liberals. I think it would do both Neoconservatives and liberals well to remember that there are limits to what can be done, both by the government and private institutions.Many of the problems that the world faces are so large, that given a limited time frame they will not be solved.
I’d like to note that I use the term neoconservative in this post, because I would, perhaps naively, like to believe that there are still Conservatives such as Robert Taft (1889-1953) who are opposed to the US intervention in foreign affairs.