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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Episode 179: Max Boot
Description: Max Boot is a foreign policy commentator and historian. Just this week he was named a contributing writer to the Op-ed page of the Washington Post. He is the author of several books; his most recent is The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam Lansdale was a CIA officer who was the inspiration behind the title character of the famous Graham Green novel, The Quiet American. As Max explains Lansdale pioneered a "hearts and minds" approach to the Vietnam quandary and sought to avoid a massive American military buildup in Vi...