Overshooting - in ideas

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Columnists - The world may regret the end of the neo-con era: "The neo-con experience shows the market in ideas – like the market in shares – has a tendency to over-shoot. The militaristic and unilateralist elements of neo-conservatism clearly need rethinking. Americans also need to think harder about the social and historical underpinnings that make democracies work. The danger is that the backlash against neo-conservatism could lead in the wrong direction – and take America back into isolationism or a cynical abandonment of the promotion of democracy. If that were the case, the rest of the world may end up regretting the demise of neo-conservatism"