Antimilitarism: (1) ignorance of/revulsion for military rampant in CLOACA scholarship, subordinate military necessity to the lives of unlawful Islamist combatants, nullify and disobey LOAC to advance political preferences, dismiss military wisdom, and criminalize troops who carry into effect policies firmly grounded in existing LOAC dispenses with any pretense that its authors regard the military as national guardians. Sub silentio substitution of uninformed value judgments regarding what should be lawful in war imposes dangerous constraints upon the military, creating the strong inference that hatred of the military and its values drives CLOACA.
pernicious pacifism: (1) regard war as a malignancy spawned by nationalism and a dearth of international dispute settlement institutions, (2) believes Islamists pose no threat, that senior U.S. leaders are warmongers who catalyze the conflict, and that but for U.S. policies peace with Islamists could be negotiated, (3) on every issue ranging from the lawfulness of the U.S. response to 9/11 to whether a warfighting or law enforcement paradigm is appropriate, whether U.S. interpretations of LOAC sufficiently protect various status categories, whether U.S. methods of detention and interrogation comply with LOAC, and whether, where, how, when, and with what the U.S. and its allies may attack enemies, CLOACA takes the position that would frustrate and criminalize U.S. conduct.
pernicious pacifism: (1) regard war as a malignancy spawned by nationalism and a dearth of international dispute settlement institutions, (2) believes Islamists pose no threat, that senior U.S. leaders are warmongers who catalyze the conflict, and that but for U.S. policies peace with Islamists could be negotiated, (3) on every issue ranging from the lawfulness of the U.S. response to 9/11 to whether a warfighting or law enforcement paradigm is appropriate, whether U.S. interpretations of LOAC sufficiently protect various status categories, whether U.S. methods of detention and interrogation comply with LOAC, and whether, where, how, when, and with what the U.S. and its allies may attack enemies, CLOACA takes the position that would frustrate and criminalize U.S. conduct.
useful idiocy: (1) describe the war with Islamists as a fleeting anomaly attributable to a trifling group of troublemakers breaching the tenets of their own religion rather than a divinely mandated conflict, (2) separate Islam from Islamists by attributing to the former principles in common with the West, including “justice and progress” and “the dignity of all human beings,” that will facilitate return to an allegedly long relationship of “co-existence and cooperation[.]; (3) dismiss the “Green Peril” as a wildly exaggerated “trope du jour” because Islamic VNSAs are mere spiritual bands led by benign philosophers whose disunity precludes any threat to the West. This view converts wariness of Islamism into “Islamophobia
liberal bias: (1) made no effort to disguise its virulent hostility to Bush or its desire that his policies of coercive interrogation, military commissions, and TK fail in Iraq and other battlefields, (2) criticism of these policies—most of which were expanded by the Obama Administration—became nuanced, sparse, and muted after January 2009 (3) suggestion that Islamists whom U.S. troops meet on foreign battlefields are not unlawful combatants bent on killing Americans but merely, along with millions of poor, black, and gay U.S. citizens, “marginalized people” who deserve that CLOACA spend “the next decade [in] reflections on the policies undertaken in the name of national security [to] prob[e]…not just what [LOAC] should be, but how it functions and whom it serves.”; (4) after 9/11 the U.S., facing no threat, chose to perpetuate an evil national history stained by the original sins of slavery and Indian genocide and other acts of discrimination against minorities and women by waging a racist, imperialist war against Islam.
intellectual dishonesty: (1) contrary to history Qur’an, CLOACA asserts that the Islamist Way of War is compatible with LOAC and the Quran, (2) contend that policies of the U.S.—a nation born in 1776—caused an ancient Occidental-Islamic conflict, and only U.S. disengagement will bring peace, (3) intellectual distortions” are legion and are the work of “militant[s] disguised as [scholars] no different than [Islamists] in Afghanistan” insofar as both shred their vocational rules
intellectual dishonesty: (1) contrary to history Qur’an, CLOACA asserts that the Islamist Way of War is compatible with LOAC and the Quran, (2) contend that policies of the U.S.—a nation born in 1776—caused an ancient Occidental-Islamic conflict, and only U.S. disengagement will bring peace, (3) intellectual distortions” are legion and are the work of “militant[s] disguised as [scholars] no different than [Islamists] in Afghanistan” insofar as both shred their vocational rules
moral and physical cowardice: (1) recommend surrender and subordination under Islamic imperium in concession for survival, (2) risk nothing more life-threatening than paper cuts or eye strain, produce scholarship intended to convince that the soldiers risking death and grievous bodily harm on their behalf are not performing valorous and sacrificial acts because Islamists pose no threat, (3) rather than individuals deserving of honors as noble bearers of thumos, U.S. troops are, at best, pitiable dupes, and at worst, moral culprits waging an unnecessary and illegal war
anti-Americanism: (1) U.S. is a “pushy and preachy” nation that must abandon pretensions to hegemony and accept graceful decline, (2) U.S is basically bad, must be destroyed.; (3) U.S. must be defeated to eradicate racism, colonialism, militarism, Zionism, and capitalism; (4) U.S. deserved 9/11,--“[a]nyone who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote” and another to encourage a “million Mogadishus,” recalling the 1993 deaths of eighteen U.S. troops hunting al Qaida-allied Somali warlord Muhammad Aidid; (5) [U.S.] is…a greater threat to peace and stability in the [Middle East] than ISIS
