They're not neo-cons, they're controlled by neocons of the Goldfarb-Krauthammer persuasion. Have to get your conspiracies right.
As I pointed out in #11, NeoCon is now defined by the Project for a New American Century. If you boil that down to the basic, a NeoCon foreign policy starts with the premise that the US won the cold war, is the last remaining super power, and should exercise hegemony over the entire world.