Max Boot (Credit: U.S. Navy) and Bill Kristol (Credit: Gage Skidmore)
Tucker Carlson, American Conservative: Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?
Pundits like Max Boot and Bill Kristol got everything after 9/11 wrong but are still considered "experts."
One thing that every late-stage ruling class has in common is a high tolerance for mediocrity. Standards decline, the edges fray, but nobody in charge seems to notice. They’re happy in their sinecures and getting richer. In a culture like this, there’s no penalty for being wrong. The talentless prosper, rising inexorably toward positions of greater power, and breaking things along the way. It happened to the Ottomans. Max Boot is living proof that it’s happening in America.
Boot is a professional foreign policy expert, a job category that doesn’t exist outside of a select number of cities. Boot has degrees from Berkeley and Yale, and is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written a number of books and countless newspaper columns on foreign affairs and military history. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, an influential British think tank, describes Boot as one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict.”
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WNU Editor: I have been following U.S. foreign policy experts for decades, especially on those whose focus is on armed conflicts. How both of these men are still considered foreign policy experts and experts on armed conflicts is beyond me. I gave up on following and listening to Bill Kristol a long time ago, but I do follow Max Boot's Twitter account to see what these people (who are as elitists as you can get) are thinking. As an outsider all that I can say is that if this is the state of the U.S. foreign policy community today, the U.S. is really screwed.
Hat tip to Robert for the above link.
