House wrote:
Those are highly statist positions
Support for international military intervention
is a highly statist position, especially when viewed in a North American context. It implies a commitment to high military spending and the global assertion of national values. It also allows for the large-scale subsidy of the military-industrial complex, a considerable degree of corporate welfare, and protectionism when deemed in the national interest. These would be viewed by a classical liberal as impediments to the unfettered market forces that they champion.
In this way, Neoconservatives actually share much more in common with the European Old Right than anything that America produced, favouring high government spending and an agressive, expansionist foreign policy.