An assistant professor from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point recently declared that professionals critical of the ‘War on Terror’ constitute a ‘treasonous’ opposition that should be subject to military force.
He believes the U. S. should have the right to attack people who are critical of U. S. military operations – specifically, professionals, legal scholars, journalists, and other people effectively spreading ideas that oppose war.
Professor William C. Bradford went as far as to publish a long academic paper in the National Security Law Journal that aggressively promotes suppressing dissent about military force, civilian casualties, and expanding military operations in the Middle East.
Using the excuse that victims would be ‘lawful targets,’ Bradford argues that ‘law school facilities, scholars’ home offices and media outlets where they give interviews’ should be targeted with military force to suppress dissent. He asserted that the war on terror should be expanded, ‘even if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage.’
He further suggested that the U. S. should wage ‘total war’ on ‘Islamism,’ using ‘conventional and nuclear force and [psychological operations]‘ to ‘leave them prepared to coexist with the West or be utterly eradicated.’
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 09/03/2015.
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