Ralph Peters isn’t my kind of guy. But hey, neocons: zing!
These are men [neoconservatives] for whom too much came too easily in life, so it was all too easy for them to view our troops as mere tools to implement their visions,” says the military-affairs columnist Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer. (Peters is perplexed and irked when called a neocon himself. “I’m not qualified,” he says. “I served in the military, didn’t go to a prep school, didn’t go to an Ivy League university, and didn’t have a trust fund. And I’m physically fit).”