In General Wesley Clark’s “A Time To Lead”, General Clark [retired] reveals in an interview on his book— the neocon strategy and plan to take down seven Middle Eastern countries in five years.
[Listen to interview at source: Ian Masters.org]

First, interventions to remove genuine threats to U.S. and allied security interests should not involve U.S. military occupations that have no chance of altering cultures, societies or peoples fundamentally different from us. America cannot financially sustain open-ended military interventions in failing or failed societies with the object of imposing cultural change through military occupation to convert developing societies’ social, political and economic structures into modern Western institutions. Not only do these operations involve expensive, long-term military garrisons on foreign territory, but the probability of success for these interventions, as seen throughout most of the 20th century, is very, very low.”

[Source: "Circling the Wagons - Washington's War; Col Douglas McGregor (Ret)]