Posted on 01/14/2009 4:21:17 PM PST by AJKauf
A faculty member publicly defends Hamas while students are not allowed to read texts on militant Islam.
Perhaps the root of our military’s strategic schizophrenia is not so much about our refusal to understand our enemies as much as it is a failure to understand ourselves. As a nation, we no longer have a sense of who we are, what we believe, or even why we fight. At the height of World War II, would a faculty member at the Army War College have even considered attempting to defend Nazi fascism or Japanese imperialism, as War College professor Sherifa Zuhur has now done with Hamas? That is a fitting testimony of how far we are from both aspects of Sun Tzu’s counsel.
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We are so screwed....
Don’t worry, The Obamination will soon do away with the Joint Chief’s and the War College ....
Don't mention being screwed and the elimination of "don't ask ... " in the same post.
But I agree, we are.
Remember Clinton and for the older folks Carter well,
I attended the Army War College on an athletic scholarship, as did most of my fellow students. Our academic endeavours were interesting, but not necessarily the focus of our lives.
That said, the range of opinion and points of view was really quite remarkable, much more open than my experiences in the graduate school of a major public university. Suppression of thought and ideas is alive and well in our civilian universities.
I would be surprised if this report is really true. I have no doubt that there is some numbnuts on the faculty who is advocating this point of view, but I would wager that other viewpoints are expressed as well. If I am wrong, then the institution has indeed changed.
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It took over 5 years for my enlisted correspondence courses to change their references to the Soviet Union and address the changes after the end of the cold war. I couldn’t believe how long it took to make those changes. Drove me crazy to take tests based on such outdated realities and then to explain to my subordinates how to deal with it and then forget it.
BUT, that does not excuse the willful disregard of a whole school of thought in the premier Army professional school. This is the very enemy we are/will be fighting for some time to come. Unbelievable.
You are right, this is still George McClellan Army. They gave it to Grant just long enough to win a war, then gave it back.
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