A course for U.S. military officers has
been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general, not just
terrorists, and suggested that the country might ultimately have to
obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard
for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear
attack on Hiroshima or the allied firebombing of Dresden.
The Pentagon suspended the course in late
April when a student objected to the material. The FBI also changed some
agent training last year after discovering that it, too, was critical
of Islam.
The teaching in the military course was
counter to repeated assertions by U.S. officials over the last decade
that the U.S. is at war against Islamic extremists — not the religion.
“They hate everything you stand for and
will never coexist with you, unless you submit,” the instructor, Army.
Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, said in a presentation last July for the course
at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. The college, for
professional military members, teaches midlevel officers and government
civilians on subjects related to planning and executing war.
Dooley also presumed, for the purposes of
his theoretical war plan, that the Geneva Conventions that set standards
of armed conflict, are “no longer relevant.”
Read More at OfficialWire. By Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns, AP.
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