repeating the canard that neocons were responsible for the Iraq War. Boot is a proponent of perpetual deployment: We need to think of these deployments [in Afghanistan and Syria] in much the same way we thought of our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (ca. 1600-1890), or as the British thought about their deployment on the North West Frontier (today’s Pakistan-Afghanistan border), which lasted 100 years (1840s-1940s). U.S. troops are not undertaking a conventional combat assignment. They are policing the frontiers of the Pax Americana. In 2018 he argued for the US helping the Syrian Democratic Forces establish an 'autonomous zone' in Syria as "this would protect at least a portion of Syrian territory from Russian and Iranian domination and give the United States a strong say in that country’s future. Boot expressed hope that if conservative TV news channels—Fox News Channel, One America News and Newsmax—do not "stop propagating lies", "large cable companies such as Comcast and Charter Spectrum need to step in" and "boot" them off, dealing with them "just as we do with foreign terrorist groups". Mark Ames of The Nation, Adam Johnson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald have denounced Boot as a "warmonger". Boot has argued in favor of increased content moderation of social media. When Elon Musk proposed acquiring Twitter, Boot said that he was "frightened by the impact on society and politics" and asserted that "[f]or democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.” Bibliography The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. Description & arrow/scrollable preview. (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018), The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018), Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (Liveright, 2013), War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham Books, 2006), The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Basic Books, 2002), Out of Order: Arrogance, Corruption and Incompetence on the Bench (Basic Books, 1998), References External links "MaxBoot.net" Articles at Commentary Live Debates for Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates 1969 births Living people People from Los Angeles American columnists American democracy activists American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers American legal writers American political consultants American political writers UC Berkeley