When someone says he wants you to listen to him because he
used to be a military man and he'll give you a strategic analysis of what's
going on like no one can – you trust him and listen.
But if, in so doing, you discover that the man is only
barking a boring tune that's echoed all over the places from the echo chamber,
you'll feel cheated, and your trust in the man will turn into anger, even
disgust.
This is what happens when you get exposed to the works of
Ralph Peters who is a columnist at the New York Post and a strategic analyst at
Fox News. His latest column is a case in point. It came under the title: “The
final act of the Syrian bloodbath,” published on January 11, 2018 in the New
York Post.
While concentrating on Syria , Peters is putting the
discussion in the context of what non-Arabs have labeled the Arab Spring. Thus,
Peters chose to paint all that happened between Tunisia
in the West and Iraq in the
East; between Syria in the
North and Yemen
in the South – with one and the same brush. He did so in the first paragraph of
his article, which says: “The hopes of the Arab Spring collapsed into a winter
of blood and devastation. From the Middle East through North
Africa , societies crumbled. The dead are beyond counting”.
You read something like this, my friend, and you don't see a
man sitting at his desk composing an article; you see an idiot standing naked
in the public square and cutting off his testicles with a dull knife. Ralph
Peters just emasculated himself in full view of the world. That's because of
the countries which may be said to have experienced the so-called Arab Spring
the only ones that suffered calamities were Libya
and Syria .
The truth is that the first has suffered at the hands of
NATO's brand of terrorism, as organized by the Jews of France. The second has
suffered at the hands of international terrorism, as organized by the remnants
of al-Qaeda; itself a legacy of America 's
challenge to the Soviet Union , its Cold War
nemesis.
As to Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain whose combined populations
amount to 110 million, the number that died in several years of revolution,
does not come up to a fraction of a fraction the numbers that were murdered
during that same period – in peace time – in the City of Chicago alone, whose
population is 40 times smaller. As to Yemen , the war in that country has
been going on and off since the 1960s, thus discounted as an Arab Springer.
The remaining Arab countries, from a total of 22, with a
combined population that exceeds 350 million; they were a lot more tranquil
than America's Latin neighbors in Central and South America. Thus, for Ralph
Peters to claim that the number of dead caused by the Arab Spring is beyond
counting, is an exaggeration that's beyond belief.
Now bleeding profusely and looking like the victim of a
botched transgender operation, Ralph Peters went on to repeat as verbatim as he
could make it, the talking points of the Judeo-Israeli propaganda machine
regarding ten entities. They are: the Assad regime, the Syrian opposition, Iran , Hezbollah, the Palestinians, the Russians,
the Kurds, Turkey , Israel and the United States .
He listed 9 of them under 3 rubrics: the good, the bad and
the ugly, describing each in terms of the relationship it maintains with Israel – even
if he does not so admit. The good, according to Peters, are the United States ,
the Kurds and the Syrian opposition. The bad are the Palestinians, the Russians
and Turkey .
The ugly are the Assad regime, Iran
and Hezbollah.
But on the whole, how does the military man, Ralph Peters,
rate what happened in that part of the world during the last seven years? The
answer, as lamentably laughable as it may sound, is best described according to
the old saying: The operation was a success but the patient died. Peters is
saying in effect that the war was a Judeo-American triumph because America and the
Kurds did a marvelous job. But the war was lost because all of Israel 's
enemies got what they wanted, and came out stronger. Here is a montage of that:
“The Assad regime is still seated at the United nations. The
Syrian opposition continues to resist Assad despite brutal defeats. Iran has built a new Persian
empire . Hezbollah has a large cadre of combat veterans, and an
expanded arsenal. Russia 's
intervention began impressively. The great Russian strength turned the tide in
Assad's favor. Israel faces
a stronger Hezbollah and Iran
on its border. The United
States crushed the caliphate, but we don't
know what to do next. We ended up doing our enemies' work for them. For all of
our battlefield successes, we have no map to the future of the region”.
With the meticulous craftsmanship that
the author put into his work, did you catch the huge Freudian slip that tells
what Ralph Peters really thinks of the situation? Well, go over the quote that
follows, and analyze it to find out: “We ended up doing our enemies' work for
them.” The fact is that America
was doing nothing for anyone except for Israel . In view of that, the quote
reveals that Ralph Peters thinks of Israel
as the enemy of America
... and he is correct for once.