OK- But Ralph Peters is a former member of the armed forces who has written several books on military conflict and terrorism. He also regularly contributes to the New York Post and other non-radical publications. Pitching an ad-hominem attack simply because as you put it hes a "neocon" is self serving and pointless. The article wasn't plucked from some white-sepratist militia blog, it was plucked from the New York Post. Your pattern of hypocrisy is not surprising. When you and others post left wing propaganda that isn't even from a reputable or widely read news source and myself and others dismiss their points because of their ubsubstantiated radical views, you have a coronary unless we can argue against their points. Here, you are doing the same thing in reverse, except you can't argue against the article- you can only attack the author by dismissing him as a "neocon". By the way I highly doubt anyone that can read would have wronfully mistaken the author for a liberal pacifist.