The term has been morphed to mean "somebody whose foreign policy views are more hawkish than mine". It really doesn't have much real meaning anymore, having merely becoming a pejorative.
Exactly. It's pathetic; the term used to actually mean something, representing a good, legitimate ideology. Now it's just describing someone liberals/wackjob libertarians don't like.
Are you implying that the only people with a "legitimate ideology" support an interventionist foreign policy? Because if so, you've reached the pinnacle of arrogant hackery right there.