Neocons have been believing their own PR that the US is the world's only superpower. There are limits to everyone's power, including America's. America is economically and militarily unable to fight two wars. If we do go nuclear, the Islamics can destroy their oil fields and the West's lights will go out. If the neocons get their way, we stand to have worse upheavals than Russia did after the fall of the Soviet Union, and as a people Americans are far less able to endure hardship than Russians are. We've never had to.
The neocons represent American people just as much as the Lenin's People's Commissariate did the Russian people.
Well said, however we both know who won, and what happened thereafter.