It’s a sad state of affairs when Max Boot is still invited on cable network television. Boot, a prominent neoconservative who thinks every foreign leader should be overthrown by the U.S. military if they don’t bow down to his vision of democracy, has suddenly gained the support of the left because he opposes President Donald Trump.
Boot recently appeared on CNN to discuss President Trump attempting to improve relations with Russia – both CNN and Boot think this is a bad idea because they want perpetual hostile relations.
But there was another guest who took Boot to task, accusing him of employing Soviet-style behavior.
Stephen Cohen, a Princeton and New York University professor who has analyzed national security and actually resided in Russia, shot back at Boot’s assertion that he has been an Russian apologist for 45 years. Here is what he told the warmonger:
“I don’t do defamation of people, I do serious analysis of serious national security problems. When people like you call people like me, and not only me, but people more eminent than me, apologists for Russia because we don’t agree with your analysis, you are criminalizing diplomacy and detente and you are the threat to American national security, end of story.”
Cohen added:
“Why do you have to defame somebody you don’t agree with? They used to do that in the old Soviet Union.”
Boot also reiterated the talking point of the left-media-neocon alliance: but, but, but Russia attacked us.
The distinguished academic once again shot back at Boot:
“I think that Mr Boot would have been happy if Trump had waterboarded Putin at the summit and made him confess. Trump carried out an act of diplomacy fully consistent with the history of American presidency. Let us see what comes out of it, then judge.”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper couldn’t let Boot be left destroyed, so he hinted that Cohen is nothing more than a Putin apologist.
It’s strange times when supporting peace makes you a traitor or an apologist.
Here is the full segment:
I pity CNN if they’re relying upon Max Boot as an “international affairs analyst.” He deserves the maximum-sized boot up his ass, as stupid and uninformed as he is.
Then you have Anderson “Mr. CIA Asset” Blooper hosting the segment. Two-thirds of the people in that segment were mentally wasted, and untrustworthy.
I remember the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting, too. That was more of a pattern than what Blooper and Max Boot-up-his-ass were yammering about.
What “attacks” is Russia doing against the United States? Boot has been consistently a moron for all those 45 years, and is as worthy of his position with CNN as CNN is among the bottom of the barrel of “news” networks, joined only by MSNBC.