Guess Who’s a Secret Agent

This one’s such a doozy I hardly know what to tell you.

I trust you are familiar with Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Max is like Bill Kristol: there isn’t a U.S. war in recent decades he hasn’t supported (oh, sure, 20 years later he’ll solemnly inform us that mistakes were made, but that’s about it).

In supporting the Iraq war, for example, Boot cited the US occupation of the Philippines and the gruesome guerrilla war that claimed 200,000 Filipino civilians as evidence that eventu...