Tag: Max Boot
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The USA at 246
The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.
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Yet More Ukraine Peace Talks
Bargaining continues amidst poisoning and mass killing.
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Zelensky’s Plea for Help
Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.
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Start the Steal?
Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.
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The Election Proved I Was Right All Along
The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.
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A Repudiation After All?
The early reaction was premature.
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A Post-Trump Republican Party
What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?
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William Barr Is Exactly The Kind Of Attorney General Trump Always Wanted
Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.
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Trump Clears American Soldiers Involved In War Crimes
Against the advice of his top military advisers, President Trump has cleared three American soldiers of war crimes, sending a horrible signal to the world and to the troops in the field.
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Country First, Or Trump First? Republicans Face A Choice.
Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?
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Bolton Was A Bad Consigliere, But Trump Is A Bad Don
John Bolton was not a good National Security Adviser, but the real problem with Trump Administration foreign policy comes from the man at the top.
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Mueller Doesn’t Deliver
Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.
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Should NeverTrumpers Become Democrats?
A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?
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Donald Trump And The Legacy Of D-Day
Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.
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Trump Reportedly Will Pardon American Servicemen Convicted Of War Crimes
President Trump is reportedly planning to pardon several American servicemen convicted of war crimes, an action that would be an insult to everyone who has ever worn an American uniform.
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Republicans Face A Choice: Do They Support The Constitution, Or Trump?
Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.
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Speaking of Elliott Abrams
And if you don’t know, now you know.
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The Death Of The Weekly Standard
Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.
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Trump Skips Visit To American Military Cemetery
Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.
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Is Trump an Illegitimate President?
Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”
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Are we Really on the Brink of a New Era in Korea?
There are reasons to be skeptical about the dawning of a new age on the peninsula.
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Max Boot on Fox News
Max Boot has a scathing, but on point, essay on the state of Fox News at Foreign Policy that is worth a read: The Seth Rich ‘Scandal’ Shows That Fox News Is Morally Bankrupt. If you are unfamiliar with the Seth Rich story, I recommend Dave Weigel’s The Seth Rich conspiracy shows how fake news still works.…
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The Republican Exodus From Trump Quickly Becoming A Stampede
Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.
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ISIS is What it Says it Is
The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”
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New York Times: Time To Grant Clemency to Edward Snowden
The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.
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An Argument Against Bombing Syria…
…can be found simply by looking at who supports the action. Scott Lemieux at LGM notes: “Experts” Who Are Always Wrong About Everything Want to Bomb Syria. Said experts include: Joe Lieberman, Bernard-Henri Levy, Karl Rove, Bill Kristol, Elliott Abrams, Leon Wieseltier as well as “Max Boot, Paul Berman, Dr. Clifford D. May, Marty Peretz,…
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Damascus Attack Kills Key Members Of Syrian Government
Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.
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The American Public Is Not SEAL Team Six
Last night’s State Of The Union Address contained another unfortunate example of the prevalence of militaristic rhetoric in domestic politics.
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When It Comes To Foreign Policy, Herman Cain Is Dangerously Clueless
Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.
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Fight Brewing Over Defense Cuts
The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.
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Debt Deal Reveals GOP Split On Defense Spending
The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.
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Writing for Money
Harlan Ellison‘s rant “Pay the Writer” is getting some favorable linkage, notably from Max Boot and Michael Totten. He vows that “I don’t take a piss without getting paid.” Which, I suppose, is good work if you can get it. Ellison is an all-time great and he’s been getting paid to write — and been…
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Gates Staying as SECDEF
It’s being widely reported that Bob Gates has agreed to stay on, at least for a time, as Secretary of Defense. Politico’s Mike Allen fills in the rest of the foreign policy team: Obama plans to announce a national-security team early next week that includes Gates at the Pentagon and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)…
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Online Life Rewiring Our Brains
The cover story of the current Atlantic (Monthly) is an interesting piece by Nicholas Carr which asks, Is Google Making Us Stupid? It begins with the standard “the Internet is giving us short attention spans” meme but eventually gives us much more than that. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that…
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Media Aren’t the Enemy in Iraq
Neocon extraordinaire Max Boot hammers hard the notion that defeatist reporting from a hostile media is to blame for our problems in Iraq: Whatever the shortcomings of some reporting, there has been a lot of first-rate coverage by a heroic corps of correspondents that has persevered in the face of terrible danger. (At least 109…
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Changing Course in Iraq Before It’s Too Late
Phil Carter believes there’s still time to get it right in Iraq. Giving that he philosophically opposed the war and has just returned from a tour of duty there as a recalled Army Reservist, his credibility is high. He makes several points but two bear especial emphasis: [T]he U.S. military must reverse its trend of…
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Boot Camp as Torture
Max Boot argues that those overly concerned about “torture” have apparently never been to boot camp: HOLD THE PRESSES. I’ve discovered that the use of torture by the U.S. government is far more pervasive than previously believed. There are major facilities all over the country where thousands of men and women who have not committed…
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What We Won in Falluja
Max Boot explains “What We Won in Fallouja” in his latest LAT column. Coalition troops killed 1,200 to 1,600 guerrillas and captured more than 1,000. They uncovered 26 bomb factories, 350 arms caches (containing thousands of weapons), several chemical weapons laboratories and eight houses where hostages were held and probably tortured and killed. And they…
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Iraq SitRep
A series of stories today paint a rather bleak picture of progress in Iraq. US warns Baghdad’s Green Zone is unsafe (James Drummond and Steve Negus, Financial Times) US military officers in Baghdad have warned they cannot guarantee the security of the perimeter around the Green Zone, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and home…