Only as an introduction to Max Boot, gosh knows, I am not a fan of the American Conservative website but in this case, the paragraph seems accurate.
Max Boot Resurrects the Lansdale Legend
If only we'd listened to an eccentric CIA operative, we might have won the Vietnam War.
By Andrew J. Bacevich • March 16, 2018
Max Boot is a journalist, historian, and unabashed imperialist. Not long after 9/11, but prior to the invasion of Iraq (which he enthusiastically promoted), Boot took to the pages of The Weekly Standard to make “The Case for American Empire.†The unvarnished title was aptly chosen. “Afghanistan and other troubled lands,†Boot wrote with trademark insouciance, “today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.†The moment had arrived for self-confident Americans to heed the charge of Rudyard Kipling a century prior: to take up the “White Man’s Burden,†guiding “silent, sullen peoples†from darkness into light, from backwardness and oppression toward freedom and democracy.
To my knowledge, events since that essay appeared in October 2001 have not persuaded Boot to revise his views. He remains today a staunch proponent of empire, even if the term itself has since fallen from favor. Whether this qualifies as evidence of principle or madness is a matter of taste, I suppose.
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Max Boot talking about his book, "The Road Not Taken":
! No longer availablehttps://www.amazon.com/Road-Not-Taken-Lansdale-American/dp/0871409410/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520003661&sr=1-1&keywords=max+boot&linkCode=sl1&tag=theamericonse-20&linkId=5c33b894d3c5dece319701e216fc08d2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_BootBorn in Moscow, CFR Fellow.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/MaxBootSometimes, we read things that upset us. Sometimes, when we know where a person is coming from, it is not as if then, we agree with them but what they say, might not be so disturbing. ---- Then, on the other hand, some folks might look at him, read and listen and say, hey, that's for me....
The guy apparently, pushes an agenda, his own vision. And I guess, he has his fans as Rush or others have theirs.
Posting this because it does seem like he gets a bit of attention.
Sounds like his vision really clashes with what Trump's would be. No wonder he is so negative on him.