If “Neocon” means strong proactive US foreign policy and will to change the status quo with the aim to stabilize and further US supremacy, then the answer is yes. I think the Neocon agenda in the Middle East is being vindicated, although the way to success has been more arduous than expected. The Neocon agenda will be needed to deal with Iran, Syria and coming crises.
This article is a pretty decent take on what is going on and how it will probably turn out or at least on what it will turn.
NeoCons should not be within 500 yds of anyone who can make a policy decision concerning war fighting.
It wasn’t until the NeoCons were shown the door or left on their own that the surge was even possible, let alone likely to be implemented.
Add into the mix SecDef Rumsfeld’s adamant refusal to make side deals with the Tribes in Iraq, and we had the daily double of futility pre Gates Iraq.
A people who wouldn’t defend themselves and actually allied with Al Quida as the US was offering nothing but rhetoric, and too few soldiers in Iraq to secure regions so peace could prosper.
Enter Gates and Patreus and lookey lookey, things improved.