Ralph Peters Quotes

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• When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
• Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.
• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.
• A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.
• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
• I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
• Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
• Social peace requires reciprocity.
• The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest…
• The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein…
• The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the…
• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
• We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

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