Ralph Peters’ General-Betray-Us Moment

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"I've been writing for weeks now that Gen. McChrystal's heavy focus on protecting the Afghan people would likely inspire a right-wing backlash. Little did I know that it would come so soon or so comprehensively. Here's Ralph Peters, the court chronicler for his own imaginary Prussian general staff, calling McChrystal "morally oblivious" for issuing rules of engagement that "murder" -- murder! -- U.S. troops in the pursuit of protecting Afghans, whom he so charmingly describes as "worm-eaten children."

Peters' putrid article is best read aloud from a balcony or inside a beer hall. Every note of grievance pulsing through the veins of the veterans of the 82nd Chairborne is on display. McChrystal's guidance "could have been concocted by Code Pink," a craven capitulation to "the Obama Way of War." And then, following one of Rumsfeld's famous rules, Peters decides to broaden his attack, going after the generation of theorist-practitioners who emerged from Iraq and Afghanistan determined to ensure that the U.S. would develop a counterinsurgency capability that would allow it to mitigate being thrust into such awful situations. You know. Pussies."

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