US military academic urges attacks on Islamic holy sites
An academic from the US Military Academy at West Point says the United States should target “Islamic holy sites” and the critics of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
In a paper published on the National Security Law Journal, William Bradford, an assistant professor at the law department of the USMA, wrote that Islamic holy sites are part of a war against undifferentiated Islamic radicalism, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
He maintained that this war must be fought “even if it means great destruction, innumerable enemy casualties, and civilian collateral damage.”
“Shocking and extreme as this option might seem, [dissenting] scholars, and the law schools that employ them, are – at least in theory – targetable so long as attacks are proportional, distinguish noncombatants from combatants, employ nonprohibited weapons, and contribute to the defeat of Islamism,” he added.
Bradford also blasted critics of the so-called war on terror as a “treasonous” fifth column, representing “lawful targets” for the US military.
He called on US armed forces to go after “law school facilities, scholars’ home offices and media outlets where they give interviews” that are civilian areas but provide the grounds for a “causal connection between the content disseminated and Islamist crimes incited” to exist.
The National Security Law Journal has expressed regrets over publishing the outrageous paper.
The magazine, which is a student-run publication at the George Mason School of Law, has since extended their “sincere apologies” for publishing the article, calling it a “mistake” and an “egregious breach of professional decorum,” that can’t be “unpublished.”
Bradford has also come under fire for lying about his academic credentials in the article.
A representative of the National Defense University (NDU) dismissed Bradford’s claims to be an “associate professor of law, national security and strategy” there, adding that Bradford was only a contractor at the revered institution and has never been “an NDU employee nor an NDU professor.”
The academic was also forced to resign from his post in Indiana University’s law school in 2005 when his military record showed that he had exaggerated his service.
Representatives from USMA, Bradford’s current employer, also said that he has started his work there since August 1.
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