Posted on 08/26/2016 11:12:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
You probably never heard of Max Boot, not that you missed much.
Like Ash Carter, Mister Boot is one of those defense intellectuals who makes a living from all things vicarious; consulting, “scholarship,” partisan journalism, political appointments, and think tank sinecures. The shorthand for the Boot stereotype in Washington is “Beltway bandit.”
Boot was born in Moscow and has served as one of Senator John McCain’s foreign policy advisors. You could do worse than think of Boot as a Russophobic wing nut. He also is a rabid advocate of regime change, global intervention, Russia-baiting, small wars for Islam, and other crackpot schemes such as “no-fly” zones in the Levant. Sound familiar? As a so-called “conservative” supporter of the Clintons, Max is now an official inductee into the no-fault school of foreign policy.
At the moment, Boot has a chair at the Council on Foreign Relations table. The CFR, when not thumping the globalist drum, is that venerable “non-profit,” icon that publishes the journal Foreign Affairs. By charter, the Council claims to be independent and “non-partisan.”
Most Beltway bandits cultivate a low political profile in Washington lest they offend one party or the other that might dispense contract or study monies. Boot has thrown the CFR “non-partisan” shibboleth under the bus and now squanders his personal gravitas and CFR reputation for the dump Trump movement. So much for “independence and non-partisanship” at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Boot was born in Moscow and has served as one of Senator John McCain’s foreign policy advisors
internationalists globalists CFR (council on foreign relations) type people are dirt under my toenails
I know Max Boot. He translated Kafka’s work after Kafka’s death. Oh, wait. That was Max Brod. Hold on, there’s someone at the door.
He used to write some excellent essays on military issues and military history.
But not lately.
All he writes now are anti-Trump and anti-Assad (Syrian president) essays.
His coverage of the Syrian Civil War is so biased I can't read it anymore.
Boot is a fairly decent historian. For the most part his is a conservative, however he is firmly an establishment type who had developed a visceral hatred of Trump.
He believes that his work makes him an expert on stretegy. It does not.
“Peace? There is no money in it” Dc Caucus for Perpetual War.
Why is it that it seems like so many Jewish Conservatives are anti-Trump?
Reality check time. -— not supporting the R nominee means he’s trying to get Hilliary elected now either because he’s far stupider than I thought or he’s sold out $$$
Boot was born in Moscow. His parents, both Russian Jews, later emigrated from the Soviet Union to Los Angeles, where he was raised.Max Boot was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, History, 1991) and Yale University (MA, Diplomatic History, 1992). He started his journalistic career writing columns for the Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian. He later stated that he believes he is the only conservative writer in that paper's history. Boot and his family currently live in the New York area.
They want to go to war with Russia? Right?
How is it possible to be so wrong in so many ways?
Most Jewish Conservatives are broadly part of the Neo-Conservative movement founded by Irving Kristol and promoted people like his son Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and Max Boot. (There are also some well known non-Jewish NeoCons, like Condi Rice, but still the movement has always been dominated by Jewish intellectuals.)
Trump has forcefully denounced the NeoCons, starting with his humiliation of Jeb, continuing with his comments on Iraq and on to his views on international relations in general.
Also Trump has been embraced by the Alt-Right, which has an antisemitic component, and as one of it's founding principles insists on discussing forbidden topics, one of which is the role of Jewish power in our society. You see this broadly on their sites from the over-the-top Nazi clowns to intellectual efforts to understand Jewish power, such as the writings of Kevin MacDonald. This is the stuff Hillary was trying to tie around Trump's neck last night, but it really doesn't fit.
Trump's lived in the epicenter of Jewish power in the USA and successfully developed buildings and projects there for years. I don't believe that would have been possible if he were antisemitic. IN addition his daughter married a Jewish man and converted to Judaism, again not something you'd expect were he a real antisemitic person.
Finally, it's worth noting that while the NeoCons might not like Trump, he got a pretty warm reception at AIPAC earlier this year.
The movement away from Obama in 2012 by Jewish voters was pronounced. It will be interesting to see how these various factors play out in 2016, and if Trump can maintain or improve on Romney's performance among Jewish voters.
Commentary magazine was the original journal where the NeoCon ideology was formulated, so it's not that surprising that people writing for it are all anti-Trump.
It seems certain that Trump has already defeated the NeoCons in the GOP. Even if he loses the Presidency it's hard to imagine people like Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Jonah Goldberg, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, and of course Mitt Romney will ever regain anything remotely approaching the power they had in the past.
This is one reason you see many fully flipping to the Hillary camp.
Here's a list of prominent Republicans who are on record as #NeverTrump.
Here’s what a lot of these Russophobes don’t understand:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.gr/2016/08/a-thousand-balls-of-flame.html
Basic premise: Russia is not to be feared - unless we threaten it or its interests. Then it is to be feared, A LOT, because they will severely screw us over without nuclear weapons (they don’t want to use them, either - too messy for everyone). They bore a big burden in WW2 from being invaded, and are not going to just sit back and be invaded again without first inflicting a LOT of hardship on others, in THEIR homeland.
Essentially, Russia is a giant rattlesnake. It keeps shaking its rattle, telling everyone to leave it the F#$% alone, but we are stupid enough to try and provoke the rattlesnake to see how loud the sound will get.
Here’s a little bit about going to war with Russia: http://cluborlov.blogspot.gr/2016/08/a-thousand-balls-of-flame.html
Hint: it won’t be fun.
CFR were never “non-partisan”.
They’re subversives, saboteurs, and partisan.
Meanwhile, Hillary's closest advisor is a Muslim, and she appears to be in the pay of various Islamic leaders. I'm having trouble making sense of the rationale of any Jewish Republican who would favor Hillary over Trump.
Reminds me of Max Power
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