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"When Devils Walk the Earth"-(A MUST READ article on how to deal with Terrorism)
Ralph Peters' book by way of the JPFO ^
| 2004
| Ralph Peters
Posted on 04/27/2004 4:17:57 PM PDT by redrock
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To: dts32041
regarding those rumors, that's a surprise to me - and frankly, I wasn't expecting to read something like that here on the freep.
I've his book, "Beyond Terror"; the backflap containing the author's synopsis of bona-fides show his career to have been centered on intel and liaison. Being a Mariner myself (Navy & Coast Guard, 24 years), my experience tells me it would not be uncommon for an officer to have a career where he wasn't on the "line-command" track - and his retirement as a Lt-Colonel indicates that he probably got as far as he could without the line command experience. But I've never heard that he couldn't hack it leading troops... and his writing is some of the clearest (right up there with Victor Hanson and Thomas Sowell, imo) I've had the pleasure of perusing.
If anything, I'd say there is a lack of multiple perspective in his writing... but that's no crime in my book, and just means that he's perfectly comfortable in his Jacksonian (to paraphrase Walter R. Meads excellent archetypal description of American Foreign Policy characteristics) role. Much the same as I am (and I do consider myself a walking poster-boy for Mead's Jacksonian: "...I'll gladly live in peace with you, share with you from my bounty and together we can prosper... but fuck with me or mine and I'll destroy you...").
LCOL Peters is a soldier first and foremost - thought I don't know him, of course. But it seems to me that when there's "Soldiers Business" to be had, there's only one way to get it done... and Peters shows that he knows this better than most.
CGVet58
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posted on
04/27/2004 5:33:36 PM PDT
by
CGVet58
(God has granted us liberty, and we owe Him courage in return)
To: redrock
Bump and thanks
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posted on
04/27/2004 5:35:44 PM PDT
by
Yasotay
To: redrock
13. Do not allow the terrorists to hide behind religion. Apocalyptic terrorists cite religion as a justification for attacking us; in turn, we cannot let them hide behind religious holidays, taboos, strictures or even sacred terrain.
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posted on
04/27/2004 5:42:17 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: CGVet58
Never knocked LTC Peters, just said those where the rumors I heard.
I try to read everything he has written, both under his name and as Owen Parry.
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posted on
04/27/2004 5:49:11 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity" George W Bush 28 Jan 2003)
To: redrock
The apt metaphor is cancer: I suffered cancer [Hodgkins Lymphoma] and was treated with 'Radiation Therapy'*...
FWIW
Doctor Vincent Coleman[brilliant man], Stanford University Medical Clinic Cancer Survivor, Class of 1982-3
sorry for the self serving agrandized metaphor...but as my patience wears beyond thin for these cult like fanatics...I cant help but draw parrallels
To: redrock
Good Post. Thanks, I hope these items get the right attention>
I have nothing to advertise
I will not re-direct you to another website where I have hi-jacked it with riduculous self aggrandisement.
The Emperor has no clothes.
I do not know how to do the double spacing.
I am not on the radio.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:01:47 PM PDT
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...Rest with the Lord Ranger Tillman.)
To: redrock
Great post!
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:02:12 PM PDT
by
PogySailor
(Proud member of the RAM)
To: redrock
This essay is extracted from Ralph Peters' new book, "When Devils Walk the Earth."
It is a must-read. The man is prescient.
Yep. His occassional appearances on The Laura Ingraham Shows are always great
learning experiences.
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posted on
04/27/2004 6:04:15 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Baynative
Read - RE-READ #9,10Now re-read it again.
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:27:24 PM PDT
by
Digger
(a)
To: Digger
Bumpity-bump. This is a must-read for every right-thinking American.
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:36:46 PM PDT
by
Buggman
(President Bush sends his regards.)
To: redrock; archy
To: redrock
When people like Chris Mathews says, "We got to find a way make these people like us." THe terrorists get a healthy laugh.
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:46:39 PM PDT
by
oyez
(Fortune favors the bold.)
To: stainlessbanner
Bump
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:49:06 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Tinfoil is my friend)
To: oyez
Thanks for posting!
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:50:45 PM PDT
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: Baynative
And #13.
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posted on
04/27/2004 10:19:34 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: redrock
This should be a blueprint for the Republican Party in matters of war or politics.
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posted on
04/27/2004 10:54:04 PM PDT
by
backslacker
(You asked for Jihad, you're going to get Jihad)
To: redrock
Interesting read, thank you.
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posted on
04/27/2004 10:56:22 PM PDT
by
Flipyaforreal
(Non sembra mai arduo cio che si fa volontariamente. Bush in '04.)
To: redrock
Belated thanks, redrock. Great post. Clarity. Purpose.
Our biggest obstacle is getting the truth to the watching world.
In France, Russia, China, Iraq's Arab neighbors - and inside Iraq - anti-American "news" outlets are once more misrepresenting our honorable troops as babykillers.
We can only hope that some of the world's citizens see past the day's spin and remember who's fighting this war and why - ask why the "evil American military industrial complex" - America's "barbarian" troops - would volunteer to go into harm's way, face this seriously rotten enemy, away from home and loved ones, for little money, risking their lives daily for strangers who suffered under Saddam Hussein for over 30 years.
Today Shepard Smith actually asked whether the Iraqi people are better off now than they were under Saddam. At least he didn't say that the trains ran on time under Saddam, but close.
Germany was jumping economically as the concentration camps were in full operation.
Bill O'Reilly thinks we are suffering too many casualties.
Was our press absent on 9-11? Don't they know that this enemy killed thousands of civilians, has vowed to destroy Western civilization, would kill millions of Americans (and French infidels, too) if they could?
Strange days.
God wins. Y
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posted on
04/27/2004 10:58:40 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." - Duke Ellington)
To: redrock
btt
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:02:46 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(GD is against Amalek for all generations)
To: cyborg
Ping
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:03:33 PM PDT
by
tertiary01
(Cultures that embrace death are being invaded by the "religion of peace" death religion. How ironic!)
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