West Point professor (Bradford) calls on US military to target legal critics of war on terror

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

West Point professor calls on US military to target legal critics of war on terror

US military academy official William Bradford argues that attacks on scholars’
home offices and media outlets – along with Islamic holy sites – are legitimate

Spencer Ackerman in New York
Saturday 29 August 2015 13.00 BST

An assistant professor in the law department of the US Military Academy at West Point has argued that legal scholars critical of the war on terrorism represent a “treasonous” fifth column that should be attacked as enemy combatants.

In a lengthy academic paper, the professor, William C Bradford, proposes to threaten “Islamic holy sites” as part of a war against undifferentiated Islamic radicalism. That war ought to be prosecuted vigorously, he wrote, “even if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage”.

Other “lawful targets” for the US military in its war on terrorism, Bradford argues, include “law school facilities, scholars’ home offices and media outlets where they give interviews” – all civilian areas, but places where a “causal connection between the content disseminated and Islamist crimes incited” exist.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/29/west-point-professor-target-legal-critics-war-on-terror

[Hydra]

1. Woo Hoo! Thought Police with the power to burn it all down!

Who wouldn't be for that?

[Scuba]

2. If this is what he beleives, Bradford is not fit to serve in the US military.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Amen...this guy sounds alarmingly like Dr. Strangelove.

[SwankyXomb]

10. Certainly not anyone

we want instructing our future military leaders.

[PatrickforO]

3. Reminds me of Goldwater - extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!

What was that sane people said at the time?

'In your heart, you know he MIGHT!'

As funny as this may seem, it isn't. Many, many people with opinions like this hold key leadership positions in our military. We've never had a military coup here, but there are now groups who have sworn to disobey orders they take to be 'unconstitutional.' There are quite a few people calling for a military coup-de-etat in the US.

What will happen to us if a cretin like this takes charge?

[Maedhros]

4. This guy is a Professor at West Point?

Not a character in a Stanley Kubrick film?

[GP6971]

5. Probably not for long. n/t

[DirkGently]

6. The Khmer Rouge killed people who wore glasses.

... on the theory they were educated, and therefore possible ideological enemies.

Sounds like this guy has a similar philosophy.

Whose side is he on, again?

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. In other words, we should become ISIS. nt

[gregcrawford]

9. Throw Bradford in a rubber room and weld the door shut.