Dream with me.

Imagine an America where even marginal accountability reigned. A land of appropriate consequences for war-criminal cheerleaders. A country where going 0 for 4 on "freedom" wars – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria – got pundits and policymakers sent down to the minors. Heck, one might make some strategic moves in a town like that.

Alas, we live in the world as it is: whence one of the nation's leading newspapers – the Bezos'-billionaire-owned Washington Post – would dare deign to hire such a fedora-topped neocon-retread-shell as Max Boot as columnist. Then, surely symptomatic of the upside-down society wrought by Trump-derangement syndrome, the Post recently had the gall to proudly publish that warmonger's latest screed: "Trump relies on grifters and misfits. Biden is bringing the A Team."

In his latest broadside, Boot offers his best Mr. T impression to celebrate Uncle Joe's "A-Team" – and overall propensity to "surround himself with good people," all of them supposedly "effective operatives." He saves special praise for the "veterans of high-level government service" on Biden's foreign policy team.

Here again, we should look to the language. I, for one, find the prospect of Washington "operatives" running war and peace less than reassuring. But before digging into the shortcomings inherent in each of the four figures he highlighted, here's a brief reminder of why Max and his opinions should've "got the boot" long ago: