The article is correct. Incompetence in high office is not the problem. Neo-conservative theory and policy put into effect very competently is the problem. Neo-conservative theory is based on incompetent ideals all right, not to mention extremely immoral ideals...but it has indeed been put into effect quite competently by those who espouse those ideals.

One could have said exactly the same thing about Hitler and the Nazis from 1933-41. Then the madness of their very competently engineered gameplan began to unravel...as will the madness of the neo-conservative agenda as well, given enough time.

Despots do not win in the end.