[BRIEF NOTE] Beware of the missionary man
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nhw's link to Carl Bildt's blog, I've had a chance to read Ralph Peters' article in the latest issue of Armed Forces Journal"Blood borders". Yes, Peters does argue that the boundaries of every country east of Israel and Greece, north of the Indian Ocean, west of India, south of Armenia, and excluding the Gulf States should be redrawn according to his amateur expertise in ethnography and wish-fulfillment.
People interested in Ralph Peters' mentality might be interested in an an article of his I fisked way back in March 2003. Suffice it to say he's far too convinced of his homeland's inerrant rightness and the moral corruption of anyone opposing it ("it," in his case, being the hard truth about the ways things area that only the military knows) to make especially impressive or interesting arguments. He might as well be a Nazi ideologue eagerly charting a map of the future Reichostland's frontiers based on ethnographic patterns, natural resources, geopolitics, and the prevalence of typically German beech trees. I'm just thankful that Peters' vision is far less likely to come true. (Who does he expect will want to partition Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia?)
nhw's link to Carl Bildt's blog, I've had a chance to read Ralph Peters' article in the latest issue of Armed Forces Journal"Blood borders". Yes, Peters does argue that the boundaries of every country east of Israel and Greece, north of the Indian Ocean, west of India, south of Armenia, and excluding the Gulf States should be redrawn according to his amateur expertise in ethnography and wish-fulfillment.People interested in Ralph Peters' mentality might be interested in an an article of his I fisked way back in March 2003. Suffice it to say he's far too convinced of his homeland's inerrant rightness and the moral corruption of anyone opposing it ("it," in his case, being the hard truth about the ways things area that only the military knows) to make especially impressive or interesting arguments. He might as well be a Nazi ideologue eagerly charting a map of the future Reichostland's frontiers based on ethnographic patterns, natural resources, geopolitics, and the prevalence of typically German beech trees. I'm just thankful that Peters' vision is far less likely to come true. (Who does he expect will want to partition Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia?)
