Book Review: Looking for Trouble
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who served in infantry and intelligence units before becoming a Foreign Area Officer and a global strategic scout for the Pentagon. He is the author of more than twenty books, which include Wars of Blood and Faith and Never Quit the Fight, as well as hundreds of columns for the New York Post, Armed Forces Journal, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other publications. He is the author of the new book Looking For Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World.
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I saw the Saudis doing damage while I was in uniform, and I keep seeing it now. They are our enemies. They cozy up to our “elite,” then fund extremism all around the Muslim world (personally, I wish I could apply Sharia law against any American university or think-tank that accepts Saudi Funding). Again and again, from Central Asia to Kenya to northern Virginia, and from Indonesia to Senegal, I’ve seen how the Saudis use their oil profits to prevent Muslims from integrating into host societies and to foster ferocious anti-American hatred. If I could do one single thing to make this a better world, I’d make the entire Saudi royal family disappear. And by the way—they’re also the worst enemy Muslims have, too. The key to understanding the Saudis is to realize that they don’t give a damn about individual Muslims—they only care about their perverted Wahhabi vision of Islam. Human suffering doesn’t bother them at all—as long as those bloated pigs in nightgowns don’t suffer themselves. Can you tell I don’t think much of the Saudis? Am I tipping my hand here? Guess I won’t be getting a Christmas card from Prince Bandar.