Shame on Max Boot and Commentary (booman | Daily Kos)

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by BooMan23
Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 08:21:46 PM PDT

What I find interesting about this Max Boot column in Commentary is not that he is gleeful that Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been declared the winner of the election. Nor am I interested that he thinks it makes it more likely that Obama will give Netanyahu permission to launch air strikes against Iran. What interests me is that Boot shows no concern for the people of Iran who went and voted and saw their vote discarded ...

Max Boot doesn't care about them. He blithely assumes that Ahmadinejad will succeed in his coup d'etat, and he's damn happy about it because he thinks it will give Israel the right to bomb ...

In a few hours, when hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Iranians take to the streets to fight for democracy and liberal reforms and better relations with the West, Max Boot will be cheering on the Ayatollah's thugs who will greet them with truncheons and bullets and prison and torture.

That's who Max Boot is. That is what Commentary has become.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/14/742560/-Shame-on-Max-Boot-and-Commentary

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1. It's despicable but not surprising.

Commentary's standards are shameful. They've also soiled their pages with anti-evolution twaddle.

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2. coup: a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

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