Fox News 'Expert' Calls Captured Soldier a 'Liar' and 'Deserter', Taliban Could Save US Hassles

[tekisui]

Source: The Faster Times

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Yesterday, while discussing the topic of the U.S. solider in Afghanistan who has been captured by the Taliban, Fox had on its senior “Military Expert,” Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters, so that Lt. Col. Peters could share his wise, wise, wise wise wise views on the whole issue.

For the record, Ralph Peters has never seen combat; has never been anywhere close to combat. His “military service” consists of a stint in Germany during the mid-1980s, where he no doubt faced down the twin evils of disgusting sausages and horrible Euro-Pop. After which, he worked for U.S. Intelligence, and wrote shitty spy novels with titles like “Flames of Heaven” and “Traitor,” while all the time never being within a thousand miles of an actual gun going off. Then, he got hired by Fox. Which pretty much brings us up to date.

So of course, when a U.S. solider left his base and then got captured by the Taliban, Fox News brought Lt. Col. Peters on to speak. Peters started out fine, first saying, “I want to stress first of all that we must wait until all of the facts are in until we make a final judgment.” Good point, Mr. Peters! Because we don’t yet know how the solider got captured, why he left the base, or what really happened, or anything. After making his wise call to avoid a rush to judgment, Peters then waited approximately 0.5 seconds before rushing to judgment, calling the captured solider a “liar” and a “deserter.”

Peters then continued—

"I want to be clear. If, when the facts are in, we find out that through some convoluted chain of events, he really was captured by the Taliban, I’m with him. But, if he walked away from his post and his buddies in wartime, I don’t care how hard it sounds, as far as I’m concerned, the Taliban can save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills."

Yeah. Got that? U.S. soldiers who leave their base and get captured should be killed by the Taliban, because those soldiers suck, and because Ralph Peters really really knows what he’s talking about.

Video clip of Peters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL9P6W9vt6E&feature=player_embedded

more at link: http://thefastertimes.com/nonsensenews/2009/07/22/fox-news-alert-captured-us-soldiers-should-be-killed-because-they-suck/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. If some "liberal" had said that. We wouldn't hear the end of it. nt

[tekisui]

2. Nope. A liberal would be tied to Obama and all would be labeled

troop haters.

[Sal Minella]

5. All the librals I know hate the troups even more than they hate Mairka.

/sarcasm

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Well, that's what I'm saying. nt

[Marr]

3. Anyone know what Peters actually did in the military?

I suspect he was a peacetime supply officer or something.

[tekisui]

11. The article a the link said he

was stationed in Germany, during peace time.

[Autumn]

4. Disgusting n/t

[joeybee12]

7. Well then, wouldn't that make this all neat and tidy...all we'd have to

do is send a nice "Gosh, we're sorry" note card to his parents. Embossed, of course.

[qb]

8. Fox News, home of the Two Minutes' Hate.

[Supersedeas]

10. always in search of the next face of Emmanuel Goldstein

[notesdev]

9. Those accusations are immaterial

The thing that must be done is to recover our soldier. If he's not on the up-and-up, that's our business to deal with, not the Taliban's.

If this "analyst" doesn't have hard evidence of these accusations, it is grossly irresponsible to air them. What if he's wrong? Then he has taken the airwaves to slander a US soldier POW, who, half a world away and in enemy hands cannot acquit himself.