Ralph Peters not buying Bhutto narrative
We are very fortunate to be able to say that retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is a friend of the show and a frequent guest. Ralph was absolutely on fire tonight, he was GREAT.
Apparently, Ralph didn’t get the memo laying out the narrative in the wake of this week’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto. She was the savior for democracy in Pakistan, right?
Not according to Ralph, THE BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED TO BE,
She was a splendid con, persuading otherwise cynical Western politicians and “hardheaded” journalists that she was not only a brave woman crusading in the Islamic wilderness, but also a thoroughbred democrat.
In fact, Bhutto was a frivolously wealthy feudal landlord amid bleak poverty. The scion of a thieving political dynasty, she was always more concerned with power than with the wellbeing of the average Pakistani. Her program remained one of old-school patronage, not increased productivity or social decency.
Ralph also talked about domestic politics in the wake of this development, his support of John McCain and his recent trip to visit to the Center for the Intrepid at the Brooke Army Medical Center.
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UPDATE: Here is an interview with Gen. Petraeus that Ralph had published in today’s New York Post.
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December 31st, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Great write-up on Bhutto. Here is another good article from an Indian publication about the truth about Bhutto:
http://us.rediff.com/news/2007/dec/31guru.htm
January 1st, 2008 at 3:43 am
Thank you Col Peters for calling a spade a spade.It is said of Benazir Bhutto that she had all of her father’s bad qualities, without having any of his good ones. She was as intelligent as she was mean-spirited. She had nothing to do with democracy whatever, except if it meant the freedom to rob, and that too if this freedom were to be her, and her familiy’s monopoly. It is leaders like her who have destroyed the possibility of democracy in many third world countries by giving it a bad name, and thus foreclosed the possibility of good governance to people who most need it. She called herself the champion of the poor, but was so far distant from them that she cannot speak the national language, or her own provincial language correctly, for doing so would sully her “westernization”. In our culture, this is the case with a class of people who look down on the ” natives”. And now that she has died, she is being reconstructed as a joan of arc. Is there any world leader who was indicted for corruption in her own country, UK, Spain, and Switzerland?
Well this is a unique record held by the newest martyr of the world. It is for exposing this fraud that Col Ralph Peters should be saluted.
Sammy.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Col Peters’ poignant article accurately captures what most educated people in Pakistan think of Benazir, her government and Pakistani politicians in general. It is unfortunate that the article linked in the first comment can be compared to it, or be labeled “truth”. The mixture of facts and lies is a popular propaganda technique used by Indian extremist publications like the one linked in said comment, and the article is a stellar example. Anyone who reads the article should be sure to read the comments below the article to get a sense of the audience to which the publication caters.
January 19th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Mrs Bhutto was a tragic figure: attacked for being a member of a rich family in a poor country, a woman in a man’s world and finally murdered by totalitarians for believing in democracy. LTC Peters prefers the dark side - I view her assasination as a poignant event in the generational war between Islamic fascists and those who would be free - in Pakistan and around the world:
BENAZIR BHUTTO FAREWELL
How beautiful you were to all the world:
With flashing eyes and crimson framed bright smile,
An exiled princess grieving for her realm,
A veiled courageous head to calm the mob.
Why leave the warm salon for rabid streets?
To show a General courage or disgrace?
Was martyrdom an outcome worth the chance
For fame and family in a fractured land?
How poignant was the manner of your death
A fragile flower in an armored pot,
Crushed by bigot bomb and army steel
And pressed within a ravaged nation’s book.
Who kills a woman in the name of God
For hope of virgins on a fleecy cloud?
Who keeps all women hiding in black robes
Beyond the shame of Satan’s apple eyes?
What hatred grows so great it must explode,
To mangle guilty, innocent and self.
If heaven comes by deeds you are not there,
If judged by faith you shine among the damned.
We Sons of Liberty remember days
When priest and king conspired in palace halls
To crush the rights of men to rule themselves;
But patriots died to break the tyrant’s chains.
We’ve been through Dallas streets and Memphis nights
To take assassin blows on noble heads,
We know the grief of promises unkept
Yet kindle freedom’s flame on martyr graves.
You desperate millions crying to be free, Remember well that veiled courageous head
And keep her vision fast within your sight
To build a land your children need not fear.
Escape the caves of darkness for a light
Beyond the bomb’s brief flash that blinds all sight,
Reject false prophets who would rule by fear,
And pass unfilled collection plates of hate.
Escape the feudal world of holy rule,
Close schools of hate and teach your children how
Free people fight with words by rules of law,
Spurn gun and jail and know their blessing’s true.
Frank Hartline
January 2008