neo-con

British  

/ ˌniːəʊˈkɒn /

noun

1. informal

   1. a neo-conservative

   2. ( as modifier )

      a neo-con think tank

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Example Sentences

Between them the Americans and the Europeans have enough voting power to stitch up the two plum jobs, which is why George W Bush was able to choose the arch neo-con Paul Wolfowitz to head the bank in 2005 and why there was no objection from Barack Obama when Christine Lagarde emerged as the European candidate to run the IMF.

From The Guardian

Max Boot, neo-con fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations — who apparently still supports the Iraq War and demanded ones in Syria and Libya, while arguing that America should become a world empire — articulated the risk in theWashington Post.

From Salon

Now they want to use American blood and treasure to launch a devastating war with Iran as seen in their firing of Rex Tillerson and getting the Neo-Con warmongers Mike Pompeo and John Bolton into power even though candidate Trump had bitterly criticized the Iraq war.

From New York Times

The bombing of Syria, for instance, was not a sudden lurch either in the direction of liberal interventionism, à la Bill Clinton in the lands that were once Yugoslavia, nor was it a sudden reassertion of a neo-con version of American power, à la both Bushes in Iraq.

From The New Yorker

In the narrow world view of these two neo-con journalists, the destruction of Mosul will be solely the fault of the Islamic State, as if the U.S. and its proxies, but especially U.S. bombing, will have no effect on the city.

From New York Times