Now you're just engaging in petty sarcasm. But for the sake of maintain any kind of coherent discussion, an ideology involves a thing called a belief. And beliefs have a tendency to come through when one is writing about a particular subject. No, I don't have a list of quotes ready from the people I've mentioned, but those who've read them can attest that such beliefs have been exhibited - some have done so openly, others somewhat more coyly. But the common thread is there.
What it sounds like to me isn't so much that you don't believe any of this to be true, but that you don't want it to be true. You hate the term neoconservative, so you're doing whatever you can to dissuade people from using it, regardless of how useful it might be in identifying a very real and very influential ideology. All I can tell you is that whether you want it or not, there are some very serious differences in beliefs among conservatives, and those beliefs are inevitably going to fall under one label or another. Neoconservative is very handy, because it describes a new (relatively speaking) turn in conservative thought, and it was brought about by those who called themselves such.
And I wouldn't worry about what leftist are high-fiving each other about. I can pretty much guarantee you that the man in the street has probably never heard the word neoconservative, nor is he likely to in the near future.
Fine and all, but what bothers me is that there seems to be an attempt to deny that those who supported Iraq war could have done so out of any other belief besides Making The World Safe For Democracy. There's an attempt here to pigeonhole people for the sake of an easy straw man to attack ("you're all Wilsonians!") and yes, I resent it.
You hate the term neoconservative, so you're doing whatever you can to dissuade people from using it,
actually I don't really care about the term. I just want its usage to make sense. like i said, this guy Podhoretz is a neoconservative, fine, call him one. Ann Coulter?!? give me a break
Neoconservative is very handy, because it describes a new (relatively speaking) turn in conservative thought,
and what turn would that be? Be specific, and don't claim to have read the minds of (and thus label and set up as straw men) everyone you disagree with either.