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neoconservative Many believed that foreign policy in those years had fallen into the hands of the neoconservatives, and that the war in Iraq was one result. ˌnioʊkənˈsərvətɪv

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A conservative who favors strongly encouraging democracy and the U.S. national interest in world affairs, including through military means. In the 1960s several well-known socialist intellectuals, including Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol, alarmed by growing political extremism on the left, began to move in the other direction. Soon the term neoconservative (or neocon for short) was being attached to them. Rather than simply drifting toward the political center, Podhoretz and Kristol actually moved far to the right, especially on the issue of maintaining a strong military stance toward the rest of the world. The main magazine of neoconservatism became Podhoretz's Commentary; it was later joined by the Weekly Standard, edited by Kristol's son William. Not everyone agrees on how to define these terms; still, it's clear that today you don't have to be a former liberal in order to be a neoconservative

word	neoconservative
definition	A conservative who favors strongly encouraging democracy and the U.S. national interest in world affairs, including through military means.
eg_sentence	Many believed that foreign policy in those years had fallen into the hands of the neoconservatives, and that the war in Iraq was one result.
explanation	In the 1960s several well-known socialist intellectuals, including Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol, alarmed by growing political extremism on the left, began to move in the other direction. Soon the term neoconservative (or neocon for short) was being attached to them. Rather than simply drifting toward the political center, Podhoretz and Kristol actually moved far to the right, especially on the issue of maintaining a strong military stance toward the rest of the world. The main magazine of neoconservatism became Podhoretz's Commentary; it was later joined by the Weekly Standard, edited by Kristol's son William. Not everyone agrees on how to define these terms; still, it's clear that today you don't have to be a former liberal in order to be a neoconservative
IPA	ˌnioʊkənˈsərvətɪv

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