Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around?

The American conservative ^ | 12/15/19 | Tucker Carlson

[OddLane]

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.”

[sergeantdave]

“Standards decline, the edges fray, but nobody in charge seems to notice.”

They also get fat and lazy and are no longer innovative or daring; thus, they become ready for slaughter.

[CreviceTool]

Max Boot advises Meathead’s (Rob Reiner) Russia fantasy organization: https://investigaterussia.org/advisory-board

[bitt]

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[sport]

In the United States of America, talent and ability have become a curse. Today, one is employed not according to one’s talent[s] or ability, but according to which protected minority one happens to belong.