Trump’s congenital dishonesty trips him up again | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
This begins to look more like an ambitious and premeditated campaign to decapitate the Quds Force rather than a response to a looming threat.
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Here’s the right lesson liberals should learn from Scandinavian ‘socialism’ | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
A Scandinavian-style social welfare state requires a massive tax hike on the middle class. It can't be done simply by raising marginal tax rates on...
Trump redefines conservatism in his own toxic image | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
The president was right when he said in his State of the Union Address: "The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a...
Era of Democratic moral compromise is over | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
For better or worse, Democrats are in an uncompromising mood, both on ideology and ethics.
Why winning and losing are irrelevant in Syria and Afghanistan | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
We need to think of these deployments in much the same way we thought of our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (ca. 1600-1890),...
Intelligence report strikes a blow for truth in Age of Trump | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
For a diligent news consumer, there is little new or interesting in the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community" released on Tuesday. But...
Republicans’ Trumpian blind spot | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
Congressional Republicans are suffering, as I have noted in the past, from a bad case of Stockholm syndrome. They've seen what's happened to "the formers"...
What U.S. casualties in Syria tell us about America’s wars | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
This was the deadliest mission yet for the U.S. armed forces in Syria and, out of four fatalities, two were women, two were civilians, and...
18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
On Friday, The New York Times reported that "in the days after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became...
The end of a Trump love affair with ‘his’ generals | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
With his insufferable boastfulness, Trump claimed, "I think I would have been a good general." Actually, he would never have made it to first lieutenant,...