In his latest column, Ralph Peters asked the question: “Why
on earth are we permitting his [Recep Tayyip Erdogan's] attack on our Kurdish
allies?” By “we” he means Americans, and probably the Western alliance too.
In any case, he answered the question the way he sees
things, and in so doing opened the door for anyone that's curious about the way
he expresses himself, to question his motives in writing that column. To be
sure, this is not a one off piece of work; it is one in a series that reflects
a deep desire by the author to play out something that's gnawing at his soul.
It is clear that Ralph Peters is recreating scenes of cathartic tinge by making
real actors on the world stage play roles that represent the full range of his
alter egos and their antagonists.
His latest column may not rise to the level of Dante
Alighieri's Divine Comedy, but you'll find it interesting and tragically
entertaining just the same. See for yourself, as it came under the title:
“Don't abandon the Kurds to the 'mercies' of Turkey 's tyrant” and was published
on January 22, 2018 in the New York Post.
Versed in the art of using extreme superlatives of flattery
to inflate the actors that wear the good-guys hat; and the use of extreme
superlatives of disparagement to denigrate the actors that wear the bad-guys
hat, Ralph Peters begins his column by identifying who's who in his latest
drama. Here is his opening sentence: “The United States has been the ally of
the Kurds that proved to be, man-for-man and woman-for-woman, the best
fighters”.
In case you didn't know, that's how he and people like him
used to describe the Turks when the latter were friends with Israel , and
were opposed to everything Arabic. But now that the Turks have done what others
did since the beginning of time, Peters and his fellow echo-chambers flipped.
In fact, what the Turks did was break with evil the moment they discovered it
was a horrible culture disguised as a religion. In response, Peters et al
described the Turks like this: “a NATO ally gone rogue–– Turkey , which
is led by the odious 'President' Erdogan”.
There is no escaping the conclusion that what gnaws at the
soul of Ralph Peters is what fuels his extreme views on this issue. And we get
a clear idea of the magnitude of the issue when we realize that he considers it
related to what he calls the Jewish “backstory.” Thus, the extreme fanaticism
that Ralph Peters expresses – seemingly to defend the Kurds – is germane to his
relationship with the Jews more than it is with the Kurds.
Look at the following passage and you'll wonder: “Kurds have
been butchered en masse, denied fundamental rights, imprisoned, tortured,
raped, cheated and scapegoated. (All of which should sound unnervingly familiar
to those who know Israel 's
backstory.)” The truth is that none of that happened to the Jews anywhere but
in the territories that were occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Thus, what obsesses Peters, has to do with a relationship that connects him to
both the Jews and the Nazis. What can that be? There is only one answer: Ralph
Peters is conscious of his German lineage.
In light of this, we must pose the following two questions:
Is Ralph Peters motivated by remorse for the bad things his ancestors did to the
Jews before he was born? Or does he believe that the Jews are overplaying the
events that occurred long ago to enrich themselves now? It could be that the
Jewish slandering of his German ancestors, and the milking of his American
homeland are the double whammy he can no longer stomach.
The problem with answering the first question with a yes is
that it makes no sense. That's because it would be saying there is justice in
rewarding the Kurds to expiate sins that were committed against the Jews by
people who are now dead. And that's not to mention there is a gap of seven
decades between the two events.
Well then, what about the second question? Is Ralph Peters
so angry with what the Jews are doing that he wants to minimize the
consequences of the Nazis' handiwork by creating a Kurdish homeland that will
turn out to be another Israel-type calamity in the Middle
East ?
Is Peters trying to generate a level of noise that will make
people forget about the events of the Second World War, and force them to talk
about the butchery, denial of rights, imprisonment, torture, rape and
scapegoating that's being committed in the twenty-first century?