Attorney and law professor William C. Bradford, until recently an instructor at West Point, would be a bit more discriminating. Rather than killing all lawyers or legal scholars, Bradford would designate as "enemy combatants" those who criticize the U.S. government's foreign policy, or offer to defend suspected terrorists out of a commitment to due process and the Bill of Rights. Thus branded, attorneys and scholars would be eligible for the full menu of punitive options, including extra-judicial arrest and indefinite detention, trial by military tribunals, torture, and even summary execution.

"The West must shatter Islamists' political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism," insists Bradford in a 185-page diatribe entitled "Trahsion des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column," which was published in the Spring/Summer issue of the National Security Law Journal.