{"id":29906,"date":"2012-05-10T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:00:34","slug":"why-the-internet-has-milblogs-and-spencer-ackerman-cant-be-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29906","title":{"rendered":"Why the internet has milblogs and Spencer Ackerman can’t be one of them"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve heard people I respect rave about how brilliant Spencer Ackerman is, and I’ve always thought he was a bit of an empty shell and this POS he wrote today with Noah Schachtman proves I was right. The piece is entitled “U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use \u2018Hiroshima\u2019 Tactics for \u2018Total War\u2019 on Islam<\/a>“. The two stooges start out with their attention grabbing first paragraph;<\/p>\n

The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a \u201ctotal war\u201d against the world\u2019s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of \u201cHiroshima\u201d to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting the \u201ccivilian population wherever necessary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shocking, huh?! But the “documents” that they obtained are a power point presentation to set up a scenario for officers to use for their war planning in a seminar at the Defense Department\u2019s Joint Forces Staff College. Ackerman and Schachtman take lines totally out of the context of setting the guidelines for the discussion and use them as declarative statements that seemingly present the world as the author of the slides sees the current situation. For example;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have now come to understand that there is no such thing as \u2018moderate Islam,\u2019\u201d Dooley noted in a July 2011 presentation (.pdf), which concluded with a suggested manifesto to America\u2019s enemies. \u201cIt is therefore time for the United States to make our true intentions clear. This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated. Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, a manifesto. It’s a phase of the war game, dickbrains. Here’s the slide he’s talking about;<\/p>\n

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See, where it says “Phase I”. That means that this is the second phase of the discussion. Phase I theoretically failed, so officers are asked to consider what the appropriate reaction to the conditions to Phase II are. But Ackerman and Schachtman think that it’s a propaganda piece to convince officers that we have no choice but to wipe out Islam. <\/p>\n

Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, the guy who wrote the slide presentation, doesn’t, nor do the people he lectures, have the influence to formulate national defense policy. Anyone with more than half-a-brain would know that this is merely a scenario for discussion and not the policy of any defense institute. <\/p>\n

I urge you to read the whole breathless piece and look at the slide show and see if you arrive at the same level of alarm that these two dilwads reach.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Daniel for the link, but I’ve been thinking about this all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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