Posted on 01/15/2009 12:19:00 PM PST by matginzac
This report from Pajamas Media titled "Strategic Collapse at the Army War College" is just plain frightening.
A faculty member publicly defends Hamas while students are not allowed to read texts on militant Islam.
(snip)
Two recent blog posts by Washington Post military correspondent Tom Ricks related to policies and publications by the U.S. Army War College give evidence to this strategic collapse in the War on Terror.
Two weeks ago, Ricks reported on a new publication by Army War College research professor Sherifa Zuhur on Hamas and Israel that informs readers that Hamas has been misunderstood due to the misreporting by “Israeli and Western sources that villainize the group.” Zuhur concludes that Hamas isn’t so bad after all, so we all just need to get along and embrace the terrorist group through negotiations — a view apparently endorsed by the Army War College when it published her defense of Hamas.
A second post last week, “Fiasco at the Army War College: The Sequel,” records an exchange between Ricks and defense expert and author Mark Perry. Assessing the academic state of affairs at the War College, Perry informed Ricks:
It’s worse than you think. They have curtailed the curriculum so that their students are not exposed to radical Islam. Akin to denying students access to Marx during the Cold War.
So while Bush, in his "exit interviews" is justifiably proud that this country has not suffered a major terrorist attack since 9/11 because many planned (both publicized and not) attacks have been thwarted perhaps it is partially because of an element of good fortune because
This is hardly the first complaint that the military has failed to investigate and assess the strategic writings related to radical Islam and Islamic war doctrine. William Gawthrop, former head of the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the Defense Department’s Counterintelligence Field Activity, says in a military intelligence journal article that:
As late as early 2006, the senior service colleges of the Department of Defense had not incorporated into their curriculum a systematic study of Muhammad as a military or political leader. As a consequence, we still do not have an in-depth understanding of the war-fighting doctrine laid down by Muhammad, how it might be applied today by an increasing number of Islamic groups, or how it might be countered. (”The Sources and Patterns of Terrorism in Islamic Law,” The Vanguard: Journal of the Military Intelligence Corps Association, 11:4 [Fall 2006], p. 10)
But when another knowledgeable person tried to sound the alarm
Joint Chiefs of Staff analyst Stephen Coughlin, who published his finding in his master’s thesis at the National Defense Intelligence University, “To Our Great Detriment”: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad. In his thesis, Coughlin examines texts from multiple schools of Islamic jurisprudence to evaluate the respective traditions on jihad and their contemporary use by Islamic terrorists, concluding that failing to investigate these sources has left our military “disarmed in the war of ideas.”
Coughlin’s thesis had barely seen the light of day before he was sacked from his position with the Joint Chiefs, having running afoul of another Pentagon official, Hesham Islam, a top-ranked Muslim advisor to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, who took issue with Coughlin’s academic analysis. (italics added)
If Israel is the object of destruction by Moslems; if Hindus, "Westerners," Jews and Christians are separated from Moslems and then slaughtered to joyous shouts of " (our) god is great!" in Mumbai can the US really be safe if we don't understand the enemy because apologists (at best) suppress the information? Be afraid, be very afraid.
As the Office of the President Elect Barack Obama (D) and Secretary of State designate Senator Hillary R. Clinton (D) have noted, we are part of the world and all the "smart" diplomacy they advocate won't ensure our safety from those who believe their god is so great he (and it is definitely a he) commands death to the non believers and a glorious martyrs' heaven to the believers.
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Sorry. I don’t believe it.
Sorry you don’t believe this fom two articles - I don’t write it, I just posted it. I have inside experience at the War College and would agree with you but think our country is not served well these days so don’t put it past some of the War College profs - good luck in your denial.
Influential Muslim in Defense Department cleared of any wrongdoing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997216/posts
We need to find out what college did they attend to pick up such nonsense!
Then take the name of that college off the list for acceptable education for promoting the idiots!
Fired For the Truth
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=288AF16B-ECF1-48C2-8892-F1661246758D
Inside the Ring
Coughlin backed
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jan/11/inside-the-ring-99910007/
Well?
Interesting but that’s abt DOD guy - I think mine was abt profs at the Army War Colege not presently information to study abiut extremist Islam because of it’s “sensitive” nature. This sensitivity, my point being, might leave the country to a vulnerabilty based on a PC approach to defense. Shame on the AWC if this happens...
But, if Coughlin can get whacked, why not course material at a college?
And what on Earth would cause you to doubt it? PC controls EVERYTHING in this country now, from what we can say all the way to how we defend ourselves. Do you remember the immediate aftermath of 9/11? Our retaliatory operation was named Infinite Justice, but our leaders changed the name to Enduring Freedom because our enemies were "offended" by the first name.
Or maybe you remember the Muslim FBI agent who refused to wear a wire to record what was being said by terror suspects? He went on to be promoted.
The patients are running the asylum, my FRiend, and it's only gonna get worse. The only thing that will break the PC grip at this point is a cataclysmic loss of American life.
MM (in TX)
It must be because the present mob of voters seem hell bent on saving everything except the USA.
Seems like the last group of sacrificial lambs that went to the slaughter hasn't made many of those call the Islamic pig fornicators exactly what they are. Unfit to live in civilized society, and actually purge them from existence.
Water torture my butt!
I can't imagine such a man accepting instructions on what to think.
Am I wrong?
Is the Army War College something different?
I’m with pabianice on this, I’m a little skeptical. As a War College graduate myself(athletic scholarship), I know full well that some of the faculty go a little off the deep end. But, overall I found the nature of the debate and scholarhship to be far more open than you will find in most American universities.
I’m sure the the Islam apologists are peddling their fares, but I doubt that the other stuff is supressed. I certainly haven’t heard about it, but will check with some of my buds to see if there is any truth to this.
I’ll believe just about anything when it comes to PC and the higher ranking military.
The Fort Benning memorial service for the 9/11 victims in the Pentagon had a Mohammedan cleric read from the Koran for five minutes.
Whether or not this particular article is accurate, I think its just a matter of time before the same PC disease affecting the rest of society infects the military. The Academic wing of the military will likely be where the infection gets its toe hold.
This is more than PC. When officers retire they can go to work for companies with lots of rich Muslim customers and often do. The politician and academics are also heavy players for Muslim money. Over time this affects what happens right up to the War College. They don’t want anti-islamist teaching.
Yeah, 3,000 deaths only held the attention of the masses for a few months. Since that time the country as a whole has become a hundred times more PC-sensitive toward Islam, which is insanity on parade. There was a time when a country knew its enemies and had no problem setting all out to defeat those enemies. Not now. The masses sit slack-jawed in front of their TVs and inhale whatever the MSM spews at them. The result? This nation is so upside down that it fears offending its enemies. This nation is so upside down that it refuses to even acknowledge who the enemy IS!
I know I’m largely preaching to the choir here, but this kind of behavior will inevitably prove deadly. To us. It will take a major nuke or bio strike to wake the masses.
MM
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