[Dr. Frank fan]

And secondly, it refers to someone who generally advocates a policy of intervention in the affairs of other countries. There may, even by his own stated understanding, be little if any suggestion that the countries in question are in any serious position to attack us imminently.

This may depend on what exactly "imminently" means, but it seems to me that by this definition, many if not most (conservative) advocates of war against Iraq are "neocons". Including myself.

Thanks for the clarification.

[inquest]

it seems to me that by this definition, many if not most (conservative) advocates of war against Iraq are "neocons".

I wouldn't think so. If they were in favor of the war on the grounds of Iraq's dispostion towards us, then they wouldn't qualify as neocons. It's only when they base their desire to go to war on its government's disposition towards its own society (or even surrounding societies, but not us). That's what "interventionism" means.