Peters is a jerk. He voted for Hillary. He has no credibility on FR.
Peters is a jerk but was more of a never Trumper than pro-Hillary. He has been rightly chastised here on FR multiple times for both.
However, he is not a leftist imbecile, shilling the party line no matter what. His credibility varies depending upon the article. This time, his assessment of the “Arab Street” is pretty accurate. The global reaction to the embassy move so far has been much more muted than what foreign policy establishment types predicted.
He has no credibility WITH YOU, you don’t speak for me.
Regardless on his Trump/Hillary vote he is certainly a smart, seasoned, Pro-America strategist who has a lot of credible insight into the Middle East.
I don’t always agree with conclusions but I always make it my goal to at least read people like Christopher Hitchens (when he was alive, Camille Paglia (an FR favorite who voted for Jill Stein but really liked Palin a lot), Stephen F. Cohen (a liberal professor who really likes how Trump is interacting with Russia) and even Cohen’s wife, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, who is as far left as it gets.
We don’t do ourselves any good shutting out everyone we have an issue with.