Max Boot

How the Debacle in Aghanistan Disgraced its Cheerleaders

Jim Sleeper | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Wesley Clark, David Brooks, Max Boot, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, John Shalikashvili, The Weekly Standard, Politics News
Jim Sleeper

The biggest obstacle to the strategy in Afghanistan wasn't American liberals' failure of nerve, as conservatives seldom pass up a chance to insist. The biggest obstacle was the delusion that Americans could do for Kabul and Kunduz what we refuse to do for New Orleans or Detroit.

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Conservatives Turn Against Afghanistan War, Max Boot Goes Insane

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Josh Mull

Something very interesting has been happening with conservatives lately. They're turning against the war in Afghanistan.

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National Security Experts vs. Forces of Delay

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Cirincione

The New START treaty should be a no-brainer: it's a renewal of a treaty originally negotiated by Ronald Reagan and it will make America safer.

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Take Michael Hayden Off the "Curtis LeMay Today List"

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charles Krauthammer, John Bolton, Carpet Bombing, Japan, Max Boot, Iran, Pugnatious Nationalists, Curtis LeMay, Directorate of National Intelligence, Bill Kristol, Liz Cheney, Middle East, Neoconservatives, National Security Agency, Elliot Abrams, Richard Perle, Joshua Muravchik, Politics News
Steve Clemons

We at The Washington Note move retired USAF General Michael Hayden out of the "Curtis LeMay Today List" that we are beginning to compile -- and back on to the roster of reasonably sensible strategists.

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We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006 Election, Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires, Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush, Paul Eaton, New York Times, Internatinoal Arabian Horse Association, Nicholas Kristof, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Dithering Afghanistan, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

We, as a country, would be a lot (and I mean a lot) better off right now if Cheney and his boss had done some dithering before invading Iraq.

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Conservatives Back Obama On Afghanistan

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Max Boot, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, Troops, Conservatives, Bill Kristol, President Obama, Ryan Crocker, Randy Scheunemann, Afghanistan War, Fred Kagan, Politics News

Prominent conservative foreign policy thinkers and activists who backed the Iraq war are circulating a letter to President Obama supporting his engage...

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McCain Adviser "Gobsmacked" By Obama's Cabinet

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Max Boot, a violently hawkish neoconservative blogger and McCain campaign staffer, professes himself surprisingly impressed by Barack Obama's staff pi...

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Jason Linkins

McCain's Terrifying New Surrogate: Max Boot

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Max Boot, John McCain, War in Iraq, Politics News

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...

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Advisers: McCain Won't Support Mideast Peace Process

Jewish Telegraph Agency | Posted 05.25.2011

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A McCain administration would discourage Israeli-Syrian peace talks and refrain from actively engaging in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. That...

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McCain's Premature Surge Adulation

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Paul Wolfowitz, Politics, Iraq Surge, Max Boot, John McCain, Thomas Ricks Fiasco, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, 2008 Election, Eric Shinseki, Politics News
David Quigg

McCain's failure of judgment, conscience, and courage during the rush to war cannot be erased. He turned his back on the only surge that might have spared us this: a surge before the invasion.

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Joe Klein Takes On Neocons Over Anti-Semitism Charge

Time.com | Joe Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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My post below, re the surge, has set off squeals of outrage over at Contentions, the Commentary magazine blog. This is to be expected, but still sad w...

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Jason Linkins

Max Boot: McCain Will Scare The Bejeezus Out Of Our Enemies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Max Boot, John McCain, Thad Cochran, Politics News

One of the concerns that many observers have had over the prospect of a McCain presidency has been the Senator's reputation for being temperamental. ...

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