Comments on: Boot: Bring Back The Bush Doctrine, Attack Iranian And Pakistani Nuclear Facilities

By: roscoe

roscoe — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:09:16 +0000

Who is this Nazi Cheney Youth member?

By: EugeneDebs

EugeneDebs — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:43:30 +0000

Why are morons like Boot so eager to bring about the end of the world?

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:14:21 +0000

He was an advisor to John McCain during his campaign for the Presidency. That’s a bullet dodged.

He wrote a book called War Made New. Also one called The Savage Wars of Peace. These seem to be historical studies of warfare.

You know, if you asked someone who collected toothbrushes and was an expert on the history of dentistry what the President’s first priority should be, you know he’s going to say “dental hygiene.”

While there’s a place for people who spend all their time studying the history of warfare, I don’t think those should be the same people who should have a voice in whether we go to war or not. Obviously they will always want to go to war, because it’s what they know. They’re going to naturally feel uncomfortable and out of their element during any peacetime period.

But that should be an obvious, general rule: if you’re considered a war buff, your opinion on whether we should go to war is moot. If we go to war, I might want to consult you after. Except for how all neocons fail at everything. So, no.

By: Comrade Rutherford

Comrade Rutherford — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:07:15 +0000

Intentionally destroying nuclear facilities is a high-level war crime.

Max Boot is advocating for the US to commit a war crime afgainst every living thing on the planet!

By: Deschanel

Deschanel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:38:28 +0000

Max Boot recently reviewed a book (on war, of course) in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. I saw his name and was taken aback, it’s memorable and not in a good way, but he managed to not come off like a raving warmonger. Color me relieved! The NYTBR has shown a disturbing tilt towards reviewing crackpot AEI alumnae’s book though,- makes sense since they buy so many of them in bulk to drive them up the NYT chart, with that funny little dagger next to them- “(suspicious) bulk sales reported”. ALL right-wing books on the chart have that dagger, and this is a scandal I’d love to see exposed.

Great to see a photo of big tough Max Boot- like a lot of typewriting warriors, keyboard commandoes with war fantasies on the brain, he’s actually a nebbishy white man with hair-loss issues and God knows what else going on. Why are the fake tough guys such doughy wimps in reality?

By: curious

curious — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:36:27 +0000

Give Max the boot!! Sorry about the pun. It was obvious but too easy to pass up.

Why is it all the neocons want to bomb? What warped pleasure do they get out of seeing living things die? What happens in their formative years that makes them embrace the doctrine of death? That must be the Bush doctrine he speaks of. They go through life kicking dogs, and small animals. Then they graduate to human beings and country’s.

You see, there is something called evolution. Go to the dictionary. Next to the word death you will find a picture of a conservative.

By: dbearton

dbearton — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:46:10 +0000

The Bush Doctrine is a criminal doctrine. This doofus belongs in prison with the other complicit RepubliCons.

By: Baculus

Baculus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:41:17 +0000

Hoodathunk, please explain further. EVERYONE in government is not the Bush administration, after all.

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:30:47 +0000

I’ve never heard of Das Boot before now. Why are all of these neocons crawling out from under their rocks now of all times?

TheAntichrist Says:

(look at my link! look at my link!)

Please stop trying to derail the thread. We’re too busy throwing rotten tomatoes at this here neocon.

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Saddler Says:

Kucinich right now, this minute should be president-elect of the United States.

I have a fondness for Kucinich, but – BWAAA HAA HAA HAAH! C’mon, really? Exactly what kind of Democratic process could you possibly set up to produce such a result?

Saddler Says:

It’s amusing to see all of you locksteppers defend Dennis Blair

Nobody else even mentioned Dennis Blair. Now quit trying to derail the thread.

Saddler Says:

For the life of me I don’t understand why Obama would appoint someone who insinuated he be taken out (Bobby Kennedy reference)…

She didn’t insinuate any such thing. Quit trying to derail the thread.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:24:59 +0000

Wow. When is someone going to introduce a 12-step program for (recovering) Bushies?

“My name is Max Boot, and I’m a fascist.”

…

“My name is Alberto Gonzalez, and I’m a fraud.”

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:16:15 +0000

Anyone that talks about Al Qaida in the same breath as Nazi Germany is not someone to be taken seriously. This Boot guy is a fool trying to rationalize his failed world view. His ego won’t let him believe he was wrong.

By: zuch

zuch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:10:58 +0000

Can we hand Boot a helmet and a bullhorn (no gun required) … and just drop him somewhere fun, like Kandahar, Basra, or Mosul?

Cheers,

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:56:20 +0000

wow…remind me again how al-queda are like the nazis, other than the fact they dont have a state, or for that matter tanks, planes, heavy weapons, or really anything that could remotely threan us as a nation..

By: jjm

jjm — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:47:51 +0000

The Bushies are going to die hard… I guess they’re mainly afraid that the gigantic military expenditures we’ve incurred since Eisenhower warned us about them may be diminishing, if ever so slightly… But there is real insanity in this call to “Bring Back” a doctrine that hasn’t even yet gone away

By: Hoodathunk

Hoodathunk — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:32:50 +0000

and Baculus, “they are violent religious ideologues” is sort of the pot calling the kettle black.

By: Hoodathunk

Hoodathunk — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:30:41 +0000

Myself I can’t help but wonder if there wasn’t a special blank added to the job application forms used by the White House for the past 8 years that asked if you had ever been treated for or suspected of having Dissocial Personality Disorder. Had to be there for them to collect such a large group of them.

It was probably right before the question about what are fly wings for.

By: impeachcheneythenbush

impeachcheneythenbush — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:27:30 +0000

It would be interesting to know Boot’s biography. He was born in Moscow in 1969, but I haven’t found anything regarding when his family moved to the U.S., except that he was raised in L.A. I know this is likely to sound really weird, but I’m old enough to remember the leadership of Russia telling the U.S. that’d take us down from the inside out.

By: realpatriot

realpatriot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:26:04 +0000

Seig Heil, Max!

By: Perry logan

Perry logan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:25:42 +0000

Psychologists call this “authoritarian aggression.” Our country has been ruled for the past eight years by people suffering from a major personality disorder. And they think they’re geniuses!

By: Saddler

Saddler — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:20:18 +0000

Hoodathunk Says:
for my money, Kucinich would have made an excellent Secretary of State. Hilary might be good but Dennis would be better.

For the life of me I don’t understand why Obama would appoint someone who insinuated he be taken out (Bobby Kennedy reference) just so she could wrap up the nomination she thought was hers by Super Tuesday. Lincoln was a guy who kept his enemies close, but I think Obama is reading too much into him.