Comments on: Ralph Peters’ General-Betray-Us Moment

By: galoob

galoob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:59:10 +0000

My favorite work of Peters’s is The War in 2020, in which he describes a war with Japan within the Soviet Union’s Central Asian republics. It was written in the early 1980s.

With a record of predictions like that, no wonder he never made Full Bird as an intelligence officer.

By: fnord

fnord — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:22:19 +0000

Talking Stick : Its importantr to adress such weather baloons from the far right because they easily transmute into a dolchstosse myth that gains memetic weight. See Vietnam as a example, or the original WW1 reference. Letting shit like that go unchallenged just leads to more serious trouble down the line. Not to mentiuon he is spitting on the honour of a lot of soldiers.

By: Clavis

Clavis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:45:16 +0000

Of course he doesn’t mention Petraeus by name. Now his transgression against A Man Called Petraeus 2012 isn’t Googlable — no key keyword!

Republicans are assholes.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:45:33 +0000

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the journalists.”

SEE - LT. COL. RALPH PETERS ON JOURNALISTS: ‘KILL THEM ALL’, by Richard Silverstein, 05/21/09

(EXCERPT)Let me start by saying that one of the sub-specialties of this blog involves featuring the paranoia, delusions and outright mania of the neocon right. Today, we have one hot sample. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, writing at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, a hard-right pro-Israel national security site, pens a virtual fever dream of a proto-fascist, anti-democratic screed…
…Here Peters advocates outright criminality in my opinion, overt military attacks on the media:
“Future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media. Perceiving themselves as superior beings, journalists have positioned themselves as protected-species combatants. But freedom of the press stops when its abuse kills our soldiers and strengthens our enemies. Such a view arouses disdain today, but a media establishment that has forgotten any sense of sober patriotism may find that it has become tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.”

In my opinion, any media outlet that interviews this man or pays him a red cent in consulting fees is doing the deepest disservice to itself and the entire profession of journalism. Even Fox News, where this guy is most comfortable, should shun him. He’s advocating killing journalists! This man is the lowest of the low…

ENTIRE POST - http://www.richardsilverstein......-them-all/

By: karaka

karaka — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:26:38 +0000

Points for using the word “sybaritic.”

By: wohjr

wohjr — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:40:45 +0000

Its also worth mentioning how disgusting this is in light of his comments regarding the still-missing PFC Berghdal from Idaho. He sure wasn’t “standing with the privates on patrol” in that situation. What is wrong with this country?

By: lcdrrek

lcdrrek — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:23:46 +0000

Here are my thoughts on Lt. Col Peters. I never knew who he was until the hullabaloo over his statements about the Taliban could save the US a “lot of hassle” and executing Bowe Bergdahl.

When I heard this ridiculous statement I had to look at his military career. Quite interesting that this “warrior” turns out to have been a Staff officer with NO combat experience. I thought that was probably the case since an officer or enlisted person who had served in combat would never make such a ridiculous statement.

Just another Chickenhawk who fits right in with the brave desk warriors at Fox News.

By: rich2506

rich2506 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:22:52 +0000

Ralph Peters’ view seems to be that of the Mongols. Wasn’t the area between the Caspian Sea and the Himalayas pretty well-populated before the Mongols did their version of “counter-insurgency” there?

By: rich2506

rich2506 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:18:42 +0000

Many years ago, Rush Limbaugh was spewing and vomiting his vile views all over the place. Good, well-meaning people said “Let’s not give him any attention.” Timothy McVeigh listened anyway and said to himself “If I carry out an act of great violence against the e-e-evill government, Rush and the right wing will love me!” And so Oklahoma City suffered a huge bombing and many people died.
That is the consequence of failing to pay attention to vile creatures like Ralph Peters. Sorry TalkingStick, but ignoring these people is simply not an option. Demagoguery thrives in darkness.

By: Knoxville

Knoxville — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:14:25 +0000

Agreed. It’s appropriate to respond to such commentary because sometimes letting it stand without a response can be harmful.

In an open democracy, you can’t always just ignore opponents and state your own views affirmatively and in a positive way.

Sometimes you have to fight back!

I’m still laughing at the thought of Cameron taking on Darwin in an effort to protect the fragile minds of America’s youth from their own inability to think for themselves at universities.

Professors at universities, for the most part, don’t teach an atheist worldview or whatever. There’s no left wing conspiracy. Professors teach students how to think critically and expose them to a wide variety of ideas. If thinking is too “liberal,” then too bad! I’d rather have an educated electorate than one that only feels and is so uneducated as to have their feelings of fear and hate easily manipulated by the likes of Republican operatives and other charlatans.