Fox News Military Analyst Continues to Blame the Troops

Yesterday on Fox News TV Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said,

"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 use a lot of legal hassles and legal bills."

I gave him a chance to apologize to the listeners of this program. Our military is broken by corrupt contractors, repeated tours of duty and illegal, underfunded, and immoral wars, but a Fox News military analyst, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, refuses to apologize for asking the Taliban to execute the 23 year old GI they are holding prisoner.

Shouldn't we take this opportunity to have a national conversation on our broken military?

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Comments

[writerjohnny]

Time for the faux colonel to re-enlist.

[Whitley2009]

I am preparing a list of advertisers on FauxNews, and I am notifying them that my family and I will not buy products from companies that support that cable new channel and its would-be TV stars like Peters.

I hope you all will take some action like this.

As a disabled veteran, I am deeply disturbed at this two-bit colonel engaging in such unseemly conduct, and actually endangering the welfare of one of our kids in captivity.

Murdock has some answering to do for his hot dog Peters..

[bccmeteorites]

Maybe HP can launch a special page where we can see a list of these advertisers to boycott. We can package up any unused product and send it back to corporate offices.

[devans00]

If Lt. Col. Ralph Peters had the grace to have a soul, he'd feel ashamed for acting as if the young American in Taliban custody is 100% disposable. If Peters has a problem with him, get Bowe Bergdahl back to the USA and put him on trial.

[itolduso]

Troops? What troops? Are we at war?! I read the paper every morning, I didn't see anything about a war! Our huge deficits are caused by poor people buying houses they can't afford and charging $300. cell phones to their credit cards, that's what my newspaper said.... not a word about contractors overbilling and war profiteers­...because they don't write about the war. I don't blame them...if people knew that over 35,000 soldiers have been prescribed antidepressants and sent back into combat all drugged up, they'd probably get angry. And if they had any idea that tens of thousands of soldiers have been denied treatment for the traumatic brain injuries that they suffered from exposure to explosions, they are just sent home to deal with the memory loss, confusion, and painful symptoms on their own, there would be an outcry & demands for action. Why upset people with the true numbers of suicides, and P.T.S.D.'s, the sexual assualts of female service members, the mental health problems suffered by up to 70 % of troops serving multiple combat tours? When someone does mention the troops, it's much easier to say someone's 'unfit', or a coward, or weak... rather than admit that even the strongest, bravest, best-trained soldier has a limit, and we've knowing pushed too many over it. The media knows best- we can't handle the truth.

[offred]

Amen!

[Peabodies]

Yes, Thom, the discussion about the troops should be about how to bring them home. Why are they still in Iraq and Afghanista­n/Pakistan­?