Neocon war propagandist Max Boot, who helped lie America into the aggressive and unnecessary war in Iraq that ended the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and others, and who adamantly refuses to apologize for the lies, thinks someone like himself — Lindsey Graham, for example — should be in charge of Trump administration foreign policy. But of course he does. He recently wrote in USA Today that since the Republicans have only a slim majority in the senate, which must confirm top foreign policy nominees, if just three neocons — Senators Graham, Sasse, and Flake — defect to the Democrats, they can “stop” Trump’s “reckless” quest for peace in stead of war, should that be the focus of his foreign policy. This is necessary, says Boot, in case “Trump misbehaves” and appoints non-neocons to important foreign policy posts.
But Donald Trump is not at all the problem here. Max Boot himself pinpoints the real problem in his first paragraph: “The president has nearly unlimited power in foreign affairs. He can order troops into combat. He can bomb any country he wants. He can round up illegal immigrants. He can spy on millions of people.”
Max Boot was a cheerleader for all these recklessly tyrannical and unconstitutional powers as long as the neocons were in charge of foreign policy. In his opinion there is nothing at all wrong with them as long as someone like Biggest Loser Lindsey Graham can exert what he calls “huge potential power” over them. Please, Lord, rid us of these neocons.
2:26 pm on November 15, 2016 Email Thomas DiLorenzo
