A course at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia included materials that advocated “total war” against the world’s Muslims and raised the prospect of “taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary,” Wired’s Danger Room reports, in a stunning story. Among the other chilling assertions in the documents:
“We have now come to understand that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam,’” a July 2011 presentation states. “It 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.”
The class, led by Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, was cancelled after Danger Room first reported of its existence last month, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently ordered the military to reexamine training material to be sure no similar content exists.
