It's gotten a bunch of different definitions over time. Look up Jeane Kirkpatrick's "Dictator's and Double Standards" as a criticism of Carter for some of the roots. Broadly it involves providing moral justifications for offensive US military action - usually to "extend" freedom.
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Replying to @pdfhunter1 @kev_jg
Nonsense. Kirkpatrick's essay is a criticism of militant democratic evangelism. Revolutionary Global Jacobin Neoconservatism is a later and altogether more calamitous development.
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Replying to @Outsideness @kev_jg
Like I said, different definitions over time and contending conceptions between individual neocons. Wolfowitz ends up being more dominant, but you can see him fumbling to synthesize Kirkpatrick's thought into an evolved neocon-ismhttps://www.heritage.org/node/9699/print-display …
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Although you are correct that I could have contextualized that better. Kirkpatrick more represents U.S. assertion and anticommunism, and less of the aggressive democratization. Apologies.
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No apology necessary -- this is twitter.
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