Did you see this by Fukuyama yet?
"The first is that nation-building is a difficult, long-term enterprise with high costs in manpower, lives, and resources....
"we are in this business for the long haul. We'd better get used to it"
It's interesting to see that the neocon approach is to turn everything into an issue of national security. How else can they justify a further expansion of the welfare/warfare state? They are no different than the left-wing socialists they claim to despise.