The neocons believe this is the fundamental issue at stake, that America will no longer have that global advantage when China & India bring to bear the full weight of the economic explosion.
Unfortunately that "explosion" is already happening. Most predictions are that China will be the world's dominant economy by the 2040-2050 time frame.
At that time the US dollar will cease to be the world's reserve currency, meanying that the US credit rating will be zero since we will no longer be able to borrow our way out of trouble (when your currency is trhe world's reserve currency, other nations have to hold large amounts of yor currency as their own safety stock).
When the end comes, it will come swiftly and hard. Central banks will dume the US dollar so fast your will think the US is Zimbabwe.
And all those business leaders who "supported" the Neocons will have their own wealth in other currencies (The Rupee, Yuan and Euro).
Of course, borrowing an extra couple of $US Trillion to finance tax cuts for Bush contributors and launch a war in Iraq (cost, $US 350 million/
day) certainly will help to make the US's landing that much more painful for those without the wealth to stash their money abroad.
But that means nothing to NeoConservatives, whose "vision", unlike that of us lesser humans, is measured in centuries.
