Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Peters: Treason at the NYT

Our old friend Ralph Peters, who writes for The New York Post, has seen the recent article in The New York Times. This article reports on a memo signed by Gen. David Petraeus authorizing black or clandestine operations in the Middle East. You can read the Times article here. You can read Peters' reaction here.

Peters is mad at the Times for publishing the classified material, and furious at the person who leaked the document to advance domestic partisan goals. He points out that making the document public will cause many innocent people to be killed or tortured, as paranoid regimes imagine them to be a part of these operations.

Peters believes the document was leaked by Team Obama to make it appear that he is doing something about Iran and its nukes. I wonder if it wasn't leaked by pacifists in order to make the operations it specifies so difficult to do as to be infeasible. Whatever, leaking it was an act of treason that, as Peters points out, will never be punished.

When I see this sort of thing happening, I wonder if our nation deserves to survive. We engage in so many self-destructive actions like this one, actions which make us a candidate for the Darwin Award.