The US military taught officers that ‘Hiroshima’ tactics to wipe out entire cities may be needed to protect Americans in a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims.The shocking option to target ‘the civilian population wherever necessary’ was part of a course for future leaders at one of America’s top military training colleges.
It compared the ‘historical precedent’ of the bombing of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War Two to the possible destruction of Islam’s two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina.
The Pentagon has now halted the course and a review has been launched to ensure any future lectures at the US Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, don’t contain any similarly offensive material.
But according to Wired magazine -- which obtained details of the eight-week course and posted them online yesterday -- the officer who delivered the lectures, Army Lt Colonel Matthew Dooley, is still working at the college. Read More
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this will never happend.Allah will protect it..im very confident!!!
After bombing Mecca with nuclear bombs or other means, causing total destruction there would be 2 possibilities : either no reaction at all because the world Muslim population would be in total shock or a massive and violent reaction of this same global Muslim population. The first possibility is the most realistic one. If there would be a chance for the second reaction to happen, then al-Qaeda would have executed this attack itself. Both cases are of course totally immoral.
While I thoroughly enjoy such thoughtful examination of the strategic situation and hope you'll continue on in the future, I'd have to disagree for the following reasons:
a) There are far easier ways to incite the "Islamic world" to anger, ones that doesn't involve destroying such an important place, even for those who belong to alQ.
b) This assumes alQ is real, which upon examination seems highly unrealistic, let alone it having the actual capability to do this.
c) If the first possibility were more realistic, the West or Israel would have done so decades ago to "destroy Islam", or at least weaken it severely as a political philosophy in the region.
d) The Jews have had two temples destroyed, and this has united them more, not dispersed their faith, as many call for reconstruction of the 3rd.
e) While the Qabba and the town of Mecca itself may be destroyed, both can easily be rebuilt, for it is faith (for the true Muslim), and not the material world which provides the anchor to eternity, making the second possibility more likely, even if the massive reaction becomes one of fostering unity as opposed to violence.
f) There are many poor and angry individuals throughout the world who claim to be Muslims who would love such an opportunity to give their lives a purpose, also making the second possibility far more likely.
g) If the American people and their government become so twisted as to allow this to happen, the world reaction, even amongst non-Muslims, would be so extreme that it would likely result in a third world war, if only for geopolitical reasons.
h) This ultimately assumes that such a decision is actually up to humans, and not God Himself, and I doubt He would allow such destruction to take place unless there was a grand purpose behind it.
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