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McCain Adviser: Russians Are ‘Drink-Sodden Barbarians’
Wonk Room — Speaking on the Russia-Georgia crisis at an American Enterprise Institute panel yesterday, John McCain foreign policy adviser/military fetishist Ralph Peters delivered this bit of straight talk: The Russians, on whom I have wasted far too much of my life, are drink-sodden barbarians who occasionally puke up a genius. As anyone who has read Peters’ work knows, Ralph’s world is full of barbarians who need killin’. In October 2006, as part of a column calling on the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq, ...

Ralph Peters: A History Of Violence
Wonk Room — ... pirates, sink their vessels (including those dual-use fishing boats) and wreck their support infrastructure. The clans behind the pirates must feel sufficient pain to rein in their young thugs. The price for piracy should be stunning. And we don’t need to stay to rebuild Somalia. End the fix-it fetish now. We need to leave while their boats are still burning down to the waterline. During the Russia-Georgia conflict, Peters wrote: The Russians, on whom I have wasted far too much of my life, ...