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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In my opinion, Trump is the most passive Republican supporter of Israel since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s.
I don't sense any anti-Semitism from Trump.
Instead, I think Trump is borderline Libertarian on USA military issues that do not directly involve the defense of the American homeland.
In other words, Trump does not want the USA to be the world's policeman.
Personally, I do believe the USA needs to be the world's policeman, especially for small, pro-American nations like Israel.
On the other hand, after spending more than $1 trillion and losing thousands of USA soldiers in the Middle East over the last 16 years, I certainly understand why millions of American voters say “No More!”
Meanwhile, Obama and Hillary are not Israel supporters at all. But they ARE leftists.
Is it that being either Leftist OR staunch Israel supporter make one acceptable, but a non-Leftist who is "passive" about Israel is unacceptable?
The original question was about “Conservative” Jewish Americans.
Just because most of them reject Trump does not mean they endorse Clinton.
I think any reasonable person can make a credible case that Trump should be rejected because of character issues and lack of political experience.
I will vote for Trump, but only because he is the GOP nominee, and I have been a registered Republican for 45 years.
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