total warriors and 'freedom of academic speech'

The 'Enemy' for  any army has to carefully created. Its identity as the evil Other has to be reinforced by a demonising process that makes it easier to kill actual people.   Gooks, Towelheads Sand Arabs etc are just the tip of the iceberg, politer terms the American army uses to create an acceptable enemy. 

 Total War fought by hardcore total warriors is something one expects only  in a totalatitarian  state.   America, it seems , is getting there if the 'teachings' of this Colonel in a top Training Institute are to be  believed.  Closing down his classes  as an attempt to recover an image of a sane society has now led to an interesting  challenge for his right to an  "academic freedom".  At a time when freedom of speech  assertions by the west have led to riots all over the "Otherised" world,  this is an interesting  line of thought to follow.through on and really think about. 

Isn't this "teaching" a teaching to hate. isn't it "hate speech' that promotes the very thing we now have to avoid 'a clash of civilizations '  We need what  former  Iranian President Khattami  called a "Dialogue of Civilizations".

As Danger Room first reported in April, Dempsey shut down an elective course Dooley taught at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, which is under the auspices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The course instructed senior officers at the lieutenant colonel, commander, colonel and Navy captain level that “there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam,’” and that wartime protections against civilians of Islamic countries were “no longer relevant.”

Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley’s Joint Staff Forces College presentation on “A Counter-Jihad Op Design Model” calls for violent measures in a war against Islam. (emphasis added)

Materials distributed by Dooley’s guest lecturers suggested inaccurately that President Obama is a Muslim. Similar material taught to the FBI in 2011 compared Islam to the Death Star in Star Wars. Dooley himself taught, “Your oath as a professional soldier forces you to pick a side here.”

The Thomas More Law Center contends in its press release that Dooley’s academic freedom was violated, although it does not specifically blame Dempsey for that. It doesn’t say what specific outcome Dooley seeks by hiring attorneys. But the press release accuses the government of “applying Islamic Sharia law to prevent any criticism of Islam” and says, “Officers and instructors see what has happened to LTC Dooley, and will refrain from telling the truth about Islam.”

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/lawsuit-total-war-islam/