Each successive president advanced rather than curtailed the War on Terror

Evidence

From Bush to Obama to Trump and now Biden, each executive presiding over the War on Terror steered it forward globally. This war was created in the name of protecting civilization, supplanted by a campaign where drones and spies donned the thin mask of harmony, and back to a trumped-up clash of civilizations orchestrated by an apocalyptic demagogue. A fluidly remade War on Terror that offered the world, and the constellation of nations that fed on the war, an American template for unleashing their own domestic crusades against an entire faith and its followers. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 306

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s guiding question: America exporting its template for domestic crusades abroad, the global-synthesis throughline shared with Iftikhar’s account. — connects to: Despite anti-war campaign rhetoric, Trump expanded Obama’s war on terror in the region — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 522; A popular Democratic president legitimized and expanded the Republican war on terror. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 612; Reagan-era war on terror did not persist through Bush and Clinton (+1 more)