Preparing for an attack?.... on Muslims?

With there being no reason to doubt the accuracy of the story, this revelation on CommonDreams (reproduced from Wired's Danger Room) of what training some parts of the US military are undertaking is nothing short of breathtaking.

"The U.S. military has been teaching its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims will be necessary to protect America from terrorists, according to documents released today in a stunning story in Wired's Danger Room.

Hundreds of US military officers have enrolled in the course on Islamic radicalism since it was first offered four years ago at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.

Among the other chilling assertions in the documents:

• advocating “total war” against the world’s Muslims

• “taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary”

• using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once

• applying “the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki” to Islam’s holiest cities, and bringing about “Mecca and Medina['s] destruction.”

• “By conservative estimates,” 10 percent of the world’s Muslims, “a staggering 140 million people … hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, unless you submit” to Islam

• International laws protecting civilians in wartime are “no longer relevant”.

“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.”