I respect him for being able to rethink his views.
Eventually he had to. Few can support our activities around the world today.
Well he is very late to the party, we paleocons have been screaming "No No" to all the damn wars and "interventions" for well over 10 years now, if not longer. But Newt does deserve a tiny bit of credit in admitting he and all the other GD Neocons were wrong and we Paleocons were right.