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Max Boot on Afghanistan: Trump and Pompeo 'Need to Shut Up'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/23/2021 10:32:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Does it make Max Boot feel big to tell a former President of the United States to "shut up?" The Washington Post columnist and Never Trumper did just that on today's Morning Joe.

In his recent Washington Post column, Boot argued that neither Trump nor Mike Pompeo nor Mike Pence, have any right to criticize Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal since they set it in motion.

Boot summed up his position by trumpeting:

"People like Trump and Pompeo just need to find a good opportunity right now to just shut up and stop criticizing something that they set in motion."

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KEYWORDS: afghanistan; biden; bloggers; blogpimp; liberalagenda; maxboot; presidenttrump; rop; taliban; tds
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gosh, Max, Joe and the Democrats are running the show now.

If you want change, you have to yell at the people in charge.


21 posted on 08/23/2021 10:40:35 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: WMarshal
The ugly compromises of a poorly planned house addition.

Oh, you're right. I'll bet it's a converted patio.

22 posted on 08/23/2021 10:41:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Perhaps the WEIRDEST man EVER. He is creepy. There is a darkness to this man I can’t put my finger on.


23 posted on 08/23/2021 10:42:31 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Max Boot is a suck up press toadie.

We're gonna hang this Afghan horror around the necks of white liberal 'elites' ... forever. Be ready Boot.

Hey Boot - your lies don't work now there's alternative news sources... Sources that can answer you thugs back.

The problem wasn't 'getting out' it was getting out without the smallest plan to safeguard our people, our weapons and our treasure.

24 posted on 08/23/2021 10:42:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Iran, China, North Korea and Pakistan are reverse engineering captured AMERICAN weapons as we type.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Practice what yo preach Max, as no one wants to hear what you have to say anyway.


25 posted on 08/23/2021 10:43:28 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 1Old Pro

On radio brief news yesterday, CBS said “Trump had a plan to evacuate in May but Biden set the date later.”-—as if they can blame him! I hate those media people so much.

Earlier they had a WH soundbite that claimed “we didn’t dispose of Trump’s plan; it was never really a finished plan put into practice, it was only a plan.”

News people are still looking for something to blame Trump about.


26 posted on 08/23/2021 10:43:50 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Looks like a step to me.

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27 posted on 08/23/2021 10:43:57 AM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

No, they need to scream from the rafters.

America’s not going to learn the truth from Biden or the media.


28 posted on 08/23/2021 10:44:26 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority.)
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To: rockabyebaby

Internet tough guy.


29 posted on 08/23/2021 10:46:12 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Boot needs a boot up his ass!


30 posted on 08/23/2021 10:46:48 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: Ann Archy

Max needs to do the right thing, like Admiral Boooorda. He won’t be missed.


31 posted on 08/23/2021 10:48:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Oh, you're right. I'll bet it's a converted patio.

The older an area is the more interesting architectural compromises you will find under the sheetrock and plaster.

Some homeowners try install a door or window in a wall that looks like any other in the house it turns out to be made out of logs from the original log cabin. Instead of sledgehammers and saws to cut a doorway you now need a chainsaw. Sometimes it is a wall made of fieldstones, wattle-and-daub, etc.

32 posted on 08/23/2021 10:52:46 AM PDT by WMarshal (The Pleasant American)
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To: LeonardFMason

He is very glum in the video. Weird, considering he was given a TV platform to parade his opinions. Like, what’s bugging you, Boot?


33 posted on 08/23/2021 10:52:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clown. They set it in motion, Biden aborted the plan.


34 posted on 08/23/2021 10:55:04 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Jeff Chandler

looks like an add-on “sunroom” that’s a step down from the otherside of the door


35 posted on 08/23/2021 10:57:24 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: GOPJ
We're gonna hang this Afghan horror around the necks of white liberal 'elites' ... forever.

Then we should start NOW and push HARD.

The Bidenistas are about to start relocating Afghanistan to battleground states. Compassion, you know.

36 posted on 08/23/2021 10:58:39 AM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is Max Boot a real person? Real name?

Anyway, I would tell him, “No, honey, you don’t get to tell anybody to shut up. Dissent is patriotic. Question authority. You might not like what someone says, but he still has the right to say it. If you don’t like those parameters, get another job.”


37 posted on 08/23/2021 10:59:37 AM PDT by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Boot can go entertain himself.


38 posted on 08/23/2021 11:00:05 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: alstewartfan
A little off the topic of this thread but since you mentioned Borda I thought I would bring it up.

My last duty station in the Navy was in Washington, DC, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command (NAVCOMTELCOM). The LT in charge of us was married to Borda's son and to put it mildly, she was an ignorant and haugty woman riding on the Borda name. Shortly after Borda's suicide, I was in the process of checking out - retiring from the Navy - and so was not paying attention to what was going in with the command.

A few times over the years I have wondered what became of her. Her haughty attitude seemed to rub people the wrong way and I wondered that since she did not have Borda to protect her, if she ever continued her carreer in the Navy.

39 posted on 08/23/2021 11:02:44 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Looks like a porch/patio was turned into an indoor space, maybe for his airtime.


40 posted on 08/23/2021 11:07:34 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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