Collateral damage is the intended point of terrorism war, not its side effect

Evidence

Collateral damage, to paraphrase Mahmood Mamdani, is not an exception in the war on terrorism but the exaggeration of its very point. It sends a message not just to the organizers of terrorist acts but to any passive supporters, any bystanders, anyone silently appreciating or vaguely sympathizing with the work of the branded terrorist. Racial branding makes it thinkable, targeted assassinations actualize its instrumentalization, disappearance its prevailing effect. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 643

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s broader thesis on racial neoliberalism and to his concept of racial palestinianization defined earlier in the book.