“There is a belief…that America can apply its power for doing good in the world, not only defending its ideals and interests…but also that it can somehow change the world. There is a sort of Wilsonian creed that America can do things in the world that is probably closer to the liberal creed than it is to the conservative creed if you take at a very basic level,” says Justin Vaisse, author of Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement.