Bush and Clinton administrations resisted the neocon anti-Islamic-terrorism agenda

Evidence

But despite the efforts of the neocons and Israeli lobbyists, this attitude toward “Islamic terrorism” did not significantly impact the rhetoric or policy of the first Bush or Clinton administrations. The 1990s were the era of liberal imperialism, and the neocons would have to wait their turn. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 448

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Complicates any linear account of continuous neocon influence — relevant against the existing cluster’s possible over-attribution of Iraq War framing to the 1990s.

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• Neocons and Israel, not the whole establishment, first pushed Islamism as the new enemy (similarity 0.82)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks (similarity 0.82)
• Both neocons and realists deploy an Islamic threat frame serving shared US dominance (similarity 0.80)
• Bush to Obama was a rhetorical shift masking unchanged imperial fundamentals. (similarity 0.80)
• US rhetoric about Islam contradicted its own arming of Islamists (similarity 0.80)
• Neoliberalism replaced modernization as the Clinton-era imperial model (similarity 0.80)
• The Arab and Islamic terrorist archetype originated from the neocon-Likud alliance after 1979 (similarity 0.80)
• Reagan-era war on terror did not persist through Bush and Clinton (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (similarity 0.80)
• Progressive think tanks rarely target Islamophobia critically as right-wing ones do. (similarity 0.80)
• Obama legitimized and expanded the war on terror, not reversed it (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment predated and undergirded the War on Terror (similarity 0.79)
• Realist and neocon foreign policy camps differ in tactics not imperial goals (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims (similarity 0.79)