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Peter Maass
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Max Boot wants U.S. soldiers in Syria and Afghanistan to know that what they're doing isn't all that dangerous. Writing articles that clamor for generations of Americans to go to war for decades or centuries to come -- that's the stuff of true bravery. (washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
This article by Max Boot reads like the product of machine learning with the machine built by the offspring of Dr. Strangelove and King Leopold II.
I've run out of patience for military cheerleading from armchair "experts" whose principal experience of warfare and countries at war come from their occasional embeds with the generals they love. So I wrote this story a few months ago...theintercept.com/2018/10/13/max…
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Peter Maass
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We remember things so we don't forget them. On this day, the 16th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we should remember the so-called experts who urged on the war. They have not withered away. They are still with us, still telling us what we should do.
Max Boot is one of them. Before the war, he wrote in the Weekly Standard, "Once we have deposed Saddam, we can impose an American-led, international regency in Baghdad, to go along with the one in Kabul." weeklystandard.com/max-boot/the-c…
Kenneth Pollack, now at the Brookings Institution, wrote a book in 2002 entitled, "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq." amazon.com/Threatening-St…
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From the just-published article by @mehdirhasan, "Don't Just Condemn the New Zealand Attacks -- Politicians and Pundits Must Stop Their Anti-Muslim Rhetoric." theintercept.com/2019/03/15/new…
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Peter Maass
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These are busy times and @theintercept is not a large news organization, about 50 people in all, but today is another example of our range of reporting. To start, @mehdirhasan has a sharp analysis of the obstruction case against Donald Trump. theintercept.com/2019/01/18/tru…
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Also, last night we posted an exclusive story by Sérgio Ramalho, a reporter for @TheInterceptBr (our Brazilian cousin), that identified the apparent assassin of activist Marielle Franco, who was gunned down in Rio de Janeiro last year. theintercept.com/2019/01/17/mar…
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