Imperial wars advance elite interests while sacrificing poor citizen-soldiers

Evidence

The terror within is always real. While the terror without is often manufactured, to marshal support for wars that deceive the masses at home and advance the interests of elites abroad. The marching orders of empire, history clearly reveals, never benefit the children thrown into its fires. “The poorest among us are the most disposable” is as quintessential an American slogan as any, and the indigent margins of Detroit and its outer enclaves represent that. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 205

Categorization

• XREF: Frames the War on Terror as empire narrative, connecting to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s theme of American empire consuming both sides.
• BMF: The figure of John and Hussein as ‘the same man’ on opposite sides of a war resembles Naqvi’s Home Boy reading of Muslim American selves fractured by the post-9/11 state.