I'm going to come back and respond to Si modo with ample quotes from prominent neoconservatives advocating for, not just considering, attacks on Iran and North Korea (and will take this opportunity to say the reason we're not at war there is simply because neocons do not run our government, not because they didn't want to) as well as all the reports demonstrating that the Bush Administration was fixing the facts around a pre-arranged decision to invade, not invading based on the evidence at that time (which had far more evidence for not going to war with Iraq than for it, according to the intelligence community) when I have more time for a substantive post.
But since this is quick and easy: You're incredibly ignorant.
Neoconservative is not a "made up term" (at least, not any more so than any phrase in any language) and lots of prominent people self-identify as neo-conservatives. Obviously you've never heard of the people who directed our foreign policy during the first Bush administration, but they were almost entirely self-professed neocons.
Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, John Bolton, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard Perle, Randy Scheunemann, Aaron Friedberg, Jeb Bush, and Zalmay Khalizah, among many others, are neoconservatives according to the 1=1 match on their beliefs with neoconservative ideology and in most cases their open self-identification and active support for neoconservative policies, institutes, and think tanks.
Among prominent non-politicians who have an impact on policy and discourse, Irving and Bill Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Charles Krauthammer, Steve Forbes, Marty Peretz, Thomas Donnelly, Michael Goldfarb, and much of the editorial staff of The Weekly Standard, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post are neoconservatives however you want to cut it.
The idea that you think there's no such thing as neoconservative and it's just a made up label used to disparage people really shows the depths of your unbelievable ignorance.
As for the claims of antisemitism (big surprise), my mother and half of my family are Jewish; many neoconservatives are not Jewish. A good portion of the founders and early adopters of neoconservativism were Jewish, but what does that have to do with anything unless you're just racebaiting? Most Catholics are Democrats, does being a Republican mean you're anti-Catholic and just applying the term Democrat to Catholics you hate to be PC? Please. GTFO with that horseshit.
By the way, most Americans, both what are considered liberal within American politics and conservatives within American politics are "liberals." America and Western Europe are liberal democracies. Liberal has a different, more precise and specific meaning when you refer to progressives, the left, or Democrats as "liberals," but the majority of views and policies across the mainstream American political spectrum including Republicans are in line with Classical Liberalism.
I bet I could fill the Grand Canyon with what you don't know.
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