Huntington premised the Clash of Civilizations thesis a decade before its wartime use

Evidence

It was a new century, and a novel ideology would be employed by the Bush administration to justify its version of Manifest Destiny in the Muslim world. This ideology, and its carefully packaged language, was primed to be put into action. In 1993, eight years before those two airplanes crashed into the twin towers in New York City, Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine: “The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 229

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said’s critique of Orientalism and the broader literature on how academics supply ideological frameworks later weaponized by states. — connects to: Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”: The…, 174
• QUESTION: Worth checking the full 1993 Foreign Policy piece to see whether Huntington himself later disowned how the Bush administration deployed his thesis.