McCain's Terrifying New Surrogate: Max Boot

Great news, everybody! The McCain campaign is no longer just the world's leading place of employment for those who got it wrong on Iraq. They're now also the world's leading place of employment for those who got it even more wrong on Iraq! That's the only conclusion reachable with the news that Max Boot, of the Council on Foreign Relations, has joined up with McCain to make his foreign policy message even more nutlog. Josh Marshall is compiling the best of Boot, but if you want the essential distillation, Spencer Ackerman's got the essential Boot pull:

Once Afghanistan has been dealt with, America should turn its attention to Iraq. It will probably not be possible to remove Saddam quickly without a U.S. invasion and occupation--though it will hardly require half a million men, since Saddam's army is much diminished since the Gulf War, and we will probably have plenty of help from Iraqis, once they trust that we intend to finish the job this time. Once we have deposed Saddam, we can impose an American-led, international regency in Baghdad, to go along with the one in Kabul. With American seriousness and credibility thus restored, we will enjoy fruitful cooperation from the region's many opportunists, who will show a newfound eagerness to be helpful in our larger task of rolling up the international terror network that threatens us.

Isn't that priceless? To think that the best advice the McCain/Palin ticket is likely to receive this week will come from Bono. Uno, dos, tres, quatorze, America!

Comments

[sedum]

Turn away! Turn away!

Evil issues from every pore.

[jeanrenoir]

The ancient Jews were right, God is a God of WRATH, and he is apparently NOT mocked. I'm an agnostic, but it sure looks like God is mad as hell at the neocons and is determined to eviscerate them once and for all. The ventriloquists dummies who've lived by the neocons (Bush and McCain, with Lieberman always at his "ear") will now die by them. Can you imagine the rage which will descend on the neocons WITHIN the Republican Party itself once McCain loses big this fall, and carries the whole Republican congressional slate down with him? The Republicans well know that it was the incredibly stupid neocon fiasco in Iraq which destroyed the Bush presidency, and with it the Republican Party itself, which would otherwise still be controlling Congress and would be winning this election going away. The Republican pros know very well that it has been the neocons who've screwed them all by hitching the Republican star to Netanyahu and the Likud vision of Middle Eastern imperialism. Thank God that when McCain and the Republican Party are dispatched on Nov. 4, the power of the neocons in Washington will be a shadow of what it once was, no matter how many rich donors stand behind them. As Obama showed Hillary in no uncertain terms in the primaries, it doesn't matter how rich your donors are if the majority of voters are against you. The neocons will quickly pay for turning the Republican Party into inedible dog food.

[ChewyToy22]

McCain gives people a new reason everyday why you shouldn't vote for him. How any people are actually listening?

[loax]

Huh? I do hope McCain repeats this garbage during the debates!

[DebbieinPhx]

Can't we just figure out what laws this guy broke now, and get rid of him sooner rather than later?

[thepoliticalcat]

You know, this person -- Boot -- has the mentality of a teenager who grew up on Captain America comics. Just send the superhero in. He'll grab the bad guys, knock their heads together, and shazzaam! World peace and grateful natives everywhere. To think that these are the idiots who might have a hand in setting foreign policy!

[PT6]

It is getting crowded "Under the Bus!"

So they found a new one!

[deliriousgod]

that would have been a fine plan if this was 1920 and he was Peter O'Toole

[Erik675309]

More tool than Toole.

[deliriousgod]

did he write that when he was twelve? "regency"?

[LeawoodKansas]

Boot him.

[deliriousgod]

okay, this dude looks just like the sketches of those guys who shot up abortion clinics

[Tulka2]

We've had years to think about this and finally, the bottom line has to be, "Where did the money go?" Follow the money. Read _The Shock Doctrine_ by Naomi Klein. She has a web site.