Cheney framed terrorists as valuing death itself, unlike civilized societies.

Evidence

Vice President Dick Cheney invoked Orientalist discourse in a 2007 speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The terrorists value death the same way you and I value life. Civilized, decent societies will never fully understand the kind of mindset that drives men to strap on bombs or fly airplanes into buildings… . ​[T]he only option for our security and survival is to go on the offensive, facing the threat directly, patiently and systematically, until the enemy is destroyed. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 725

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘they love death, we love life’ civilizational framing has deep roots; connecting to Aziz’s thesis about the Orientalist imagination of Muslim irrationality.