The neocons are definitely an example of "corporate merging with the state," as Furious George said, but there is much more to it. The corporate takeover of the government has created its own strange set of problems, most significantly that most of the government is directly controlled by people more loyal to big business than to the public. But the Bush gang's foreign policy on the whole is more problematic than the neocons' domestic piracy.
The Bush White House has a great deal of loyalty not only to its corporate sponsors, but to some misguided ideology that the United States should dominate the Middle East military and economically. They wage wars based on their half-psychotic vision, then proceed to profit, directly and indirectly, from the war itself and the reconstruction afterward, all the while lying about some altruistic motive involving spreading democracy or liberating people from oppressive rule.
If this is allowed to continue until the neocons decide to cut and run, there will be hell to pay. They won't be able to simply roll their tanks out there and take everything over like they believe. People will fight back; countries with the military capability to do so (unlike Afghanistan and Iraq) will defend themselves from what they perceive as a very real threat, and with good cause. More powerful countries (e.g., Russia, China) will make alliances, probably along economic lines, and will fund the wars in various fronts. The politicians will have their own little puppet show out in the desert with other people's countries and other people's lives.
Anyway, time to hit the hay as they say.
