{"id":30450,"date":"2012-06-20T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30450"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:29:34","slug":"big-army-kowtows-to-spencer-ackermanns-breathless-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30450","title":{"rendered":"Big Army kowtows to Spencer Ackerman’s breathless ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I wrote about Spencer Ackerman’s piece at Wired<\/a> which totally mischaracterized materials from a course offered at the Joint Forces Staff College. the PowerPoint presentation merely set up a scenario in which Islam had morphed into a cult which threatened the United States and the US military had to meet the new challenge. Ackerman and his lapdog, Noah Schachtman, took quotes totally out of context to make it appear as if the instructor, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, was making policy pronouncements instead of just framing the discussion for the scenario.<\/p>\n

Instead of telling me how I was wrong, Ackerman merely went on Twitter and said I was wrong, mostly because I wasn’t wrong and he was afraid to confront me.<\/p>\n

Apparently Big Army was afraid to confront Ackerman, because at a link that Zero sent us<\/a> today, they’ve fired Dooley and reconfigured the course;<\/p>\n

Colonel David Lapan, a spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday a review of the course found that “institutional failures and in oversight and judgment” led to the course being modified over time in a way “that portrayed Islam almost entirely in a negative way.”<\/p>\n

“The inquiry recommends the course be redesigned to include aspects of U.S. policy and reduce its reliance on external instruction,” Lapan said in a statement. It also recommended improving oversight of course curricula.<\/p>\n

“The elective course’s military instructor has been relieved of his instructor duties until his permanent change of station, which was previously planned for 2012,” Lapan said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is why Leon Panetta shouldn’t be the Secretary of Defense;<\/p>\n

Navy Captain John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said in April that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was deeply concerned about some of the materials being taught in the course, such as the slide suggesting the United States was at war with Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, just throw your officers under the bus, there, Leon, on the word of an idiot serial goat tongue-kisser like Spencer Ackerman.<\/p>\n

That’s not the way it should have been played at all. Big Army should have taken the time to explain it, instead of playing it like they had a loose cannon running around the Joint Forces Staff College trying to formulate a policy against the religion of Islam. Spencer Ackermann remains an ignorant douche nozzle and Big Army looks like the PC pussies they really are.<\/p>\n

I’m standing here by a plate glass window just hoping Ackerman comes by and pushes me through it. In fact, the night I wrote that piece, I stood by a plate glass window all night at the Arlington Westin Hotel…no Ackerman, though he was in the neighborhood. So he’s still not a milblogger, and he still doesn’t know what he’s talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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