The Trump Doctrine with Max Boot

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Joe sits down with author, historian and foreign policy analyst Max Boot to talk about Syria, Ukraine and the Trump Doctrine. Max is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations a columnist for The Washington Post and a global affairs analyst for CNN. Max is also the author of six books including The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.6	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.2	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.2	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.6	To have power and words have consequences.
0:32.6	We're honored and pleased to be joined again today by author, historian and foreign policy
0:37.0	analyst Max Boot.
0:38.6	Max is the gene-corpatric senior fellow in national security studies at the Council
0:43.5	and Foreign Relations.
0:44.5	He's a columnist for the Washington Post and a global affairs analyst for CNN.
0:50.1	Max is also the author of six books, including The Corrosion of Conservatism, Why I Left
0:55.6	the Right.
0:56.6	Welcome again Max.
0:57.6	Great to be back.
0:58.6	So there really are two somewhat complicated foreign policy issues that have now hijacked
1:05.3	the political debate in the US.
1:07.8	I want to spend a couple of minutes on each of them.
1:11.1	For our listeners, we've got a better understanding of what's going on there.
1:14.0	So let's start with Syria.
1:15.3	Why was the US in northern Syria?
1:19.0	We were basically there to fight Islamic State, which of course was this terrible terrorist
1:25.0	group that took over a good portion of Syria and Iraq and started massacring minorities
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