McCain's Mad Dog Advisor Max Boot
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
While most all of Bush’s neo-conservatives have been discredited, a new generation of imperialist cheerleaders stands to grasp the reins of foreign policy in the event that John McCain wins the November election. One up and coming hopeful is Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an informal adviser to the Arizona Senator’s campaign.
I first became aware of Boot as a college undergraduate at UC Berkeley in the late 1980s. At that time, Boot was a columnist for the campus newspaper, The Daily Californian. While I don’t recall the exact content of his articles, Boot’s tone stuck in my mind. Ha[...]