October 24, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  Max Boot is a conservative commentator who is also an interventionist. (Or am I being redundant?) Boot favored the Iraq War, before he later turned against it when he saw what a fiasco it turned out to be. He also favored the war on Afghanistan. Today, like other Republicans and Democrats, he is criticizing President Trump for “betraying” the Kurds by relocating 50 U.S. troops who were serving as sacrificial tripwires to deter Turkey from attacking the Kurds.

The question I have for Boot, along with all other Republican and Democratic interventionists, is: Why don’t you yourself go to Syria and help out the Kurds?

After all, it’s easy to be brave, courageous, compassionate, and loyal to the Kurds when it’s someone else who is doing the killing and dying. It’s not as easy to display such traits when it’s you, the interventionist, who is doing the killing and dying.

Now, I know what Boot would say. He’d say, “Jacob, I’m 50 years old. This is war. That’s something for young people, not for people of my age. I need to stay here and write my commentaries explaining ‘we’ should help the Kurds.”

But a story in yesterday’s Washington Post blows that argument right out of the water. The story is about a Hollywood actor named Michael Enright who is a British citizen. Like Boot and other interventionists, he was concerned about the plight of the Kurds. Unlike Boot and other interventionists, he decided to put his money where his mouth is.