Max Boot is not a media representative.  Once again we have supposed common sense commentators with zero knowledge of foreign affairs who expect their opinion to be if the same value as person with decades of profession experience.

That's unacceptable to any rational problem solving process.  Not all opinions are of equal value, especially on topics that require real knowledge.   

The politics showing brightest here are for the supporters of Trump who want him to be something he isn't - prepared to be president of the United States