Max Boot is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His forthcoming book is “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus arrives at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill September 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on United States Middle East Policy. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 10: President-elect Donald Trump (L) listens as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. Trump is scheduled to meet with members of the Republican leadership in Congress later today on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 09: Republican president-elect Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City. Donald Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
PITTSBURGH, PA - NOVEMBER 04: Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at The Great Hall at Heinz Field on November 4, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With less than a week to go until election day, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 20: President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on October 20, 2016 in Beijing, China. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is on a four-day state visit to China, his first since taking power in late June, with the aim of improving bilaterial relations. (Photo by Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)
TAMPA, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the University of South Florida Sun Dome on February 12, 2016 in Tampa, Florida. The process to select the next Democratic and Republican Presidential candidate continues. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump debate during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016. / AFP / Robyn Beck (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
FLORENCE, SC - FEBRUARY 5: People hold a homemade Donald Trump sign before a campaign rally February 5, 2016 in Florence, South Carolina. Trump's airplane was unable to return to New Hampshire from New York due to a snowstorm so he is holding an event in South Carolina. He plans to return to New Hampshire on Monday. The South Carolina Republican primary will be held on February 20. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
ESTERO, FL - SEPTEMBER 19: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Germain Arena on September 19, 2016 in Estero, Florida. Trump is locked in a tight race against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Florida as the November 8th election nears. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED, PHILIPPINES - MAY 09: People wait for results in polling centers after voting ended on May 9, 2016 in Manila, Philippines. Voters in the Philippines are set to elect Rodrigo Duterte, a tough-talking mayor of Davao City in Mindanao, pulling away from his rivals despite controversial speeches and little national government experience. The 71-year-old Duterte, who has been compared to Donald Trump, is likely to be elected president of the Philippines in one of Southeast Asia's most populous democracy with a population of 100 million people on Monday. (Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images)
A Sudanese docker lifts his head cover as he unloads a US aid shipment organised by the US Agency for International Development and the World Food Programme at Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, on May 5, 2016.
Dockers began unloading tens of thousands of tonnes of food from a US aid ship destined for war-torn areas of Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported. The bulk carrier Liberty Grace docked in Port Sudan with a cargo of 47,500 tonnes of sorghum, a staple food in Sudan.
/ AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
