Analyst's note: This course - now canceled by Pentagon Brass -- WAS being taught at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. for mid-level officers and government civilians on subjects related to planning and executing war. The teaching in the specific military course, as taught by Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, ran counter to repeated assertions by U.S. officials over the past 10-years that the nation is at war with Islamic extremists — not the religion of Islam. The military is now conducting an inquiry, that is being conducted by Army Maj. Gen. Frederick Rudesheim, which is scheduled to conclude on May 24.
Dooley noted that his views are “not the Official Policy of the United States Government” and are intended “to generate dynamic discussion and thought.” We see clearly the political correctness along with the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood operating as a Fifth Column within our federal gov't. Lt. Col. Dooley laid out a possible four-phase war plan to carry out a forced transformation of the Islam religion. Phase three included possible outcomes such as “Islam reduced to a cult status” and “Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation.” (It’s an especially ironic suggestion, in light of today’s news that Saudi intelligence broke up the most recent al-Qaida bombing plot.) Lt. Col Dooley believes that international laws protecting civilians in wartime are “no longer relevant.” The planning he suggested, would have opened the possibility of applying “the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki” to Islam’s holiest cities, and bringing about “Mecca and Medina['s] destruction.”
We are also aware of documents recently declassified by the U.S. government, that revealed the 9/11 Islamist jihadist enemy planner Osama bin Laden was fretting about al-Qaida’s brutal methods and damaged brand alienating the vast majority of Muslims from choosing to wage the jihad holy war.
How is it the enemy can use all of Islam to kill Americans, but we can not attack the primary ideology (Political Islam) of this Islamist enemy? Hmmmmm.....
"America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics.
“It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn’t academically sound,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon press conference on Thursday. The instructor responsible for the course, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, is “no longer in a teaching status,” Dempsey added — but he is still employed at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.
Dempsey’s comments were prompted by a Danger Room report on Thursday that described Dooley’s course in detail. For at least a year, Dooley taught an optional course at the college for lieutenant colonels, colonels, commanders and Navy captains that proposed taking a war on Islam “to the civilian population wherever necessary,” which he likened to the bombardment of Dresden and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Guest lecturers in the course encouraged those senior officers to think of themselves as a “resistance movement” to Islam.
Dempsey and his deputy for military education, Marine Lt. Gen. George Flynn, pulled the plug on the course last month. The general said he was “quite thankful” for an unnamed military officer who brought word of the anti-Islam material to his attention. Dempsey and his staff launched an investigation into “what motivated that elective to being part of the curriculum,” as he put it on Thursday, and the general also sent a letter to the heads of every military service and regional command instructing them to jettison any similar material, as per a White House directive issued last fall.
[....] The military is hardly alone in dealing with anti-Islam instructional material passing itself off as responsible counterterrorism. Over the years, hundreds of documents claiming “mainstream” Muslims are “violent” have made their way into FBI curricula, alongside internal claims that agents working on counterterrorism cases could “bend or suspend the law.” [....]
