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Related: About this forumU.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
May 10, 2012 | 4:00 am
The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a total war against the worlds 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of Hiroshima to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the civilian population wherever necessary.
The course, first reported by Danger Room last month and held at the Defense Departments Joint Forces Staff College, has since been canceled by the Pentagon brass. Its only now, however, that the details of the class have come to light. Danger Room received hundreds of pages of course material and reference documents from a source familiar with the contents of the class.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to make sure it doesnt contain similarly hateful material, a process that is still ongoing. But the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, still maintains his position at the Norfolk, Virginia college, pending an investigation. The commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels who sat in Dooleys classroom, listening to the inflammatory material week after week, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout the U.S. military.
For the better part of the last decade, a small cabal of self-anointed counterterrorism experts has been working its way through the U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement communities, trying to convince whoever it could that Americas real terrorist enemy wasnt al-Qaida but the Islamic faith itself. In his course, Dooley brought in these anti-Muslim demagogues as guest lecturers. And he took their argument to its final, ugly conclusion.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/total-war-islam/?pid=1195&pageid=80131
Why Syzygy
(18,928 posts)Lost?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)ymmv.
rug
(82,333 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Rob H.
(5,354 posts)Facilitated self-destruction? So we're going to bomb the crap out of them and say, "Now just look at what you made us do!" Sounds an awful lot like "pre-emptive war," and that worked out so well for everyone when Shrub attacked Iraq.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)if we bomb their holiest of shrines they'll just roll over and give up. It seems so logical, what could go wrong? (sarcasm)