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We Should Be Grateful That Obama Is "Dithering"

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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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 10.20.2009 | Politics

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 12.27.2008 | Politics

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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 10.24.2008 | Politics

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 10.24.2008 | Politics

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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 08.07.2008 | Politics

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 07.03.2008 | Media

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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 03.28.2008 | Politics

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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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