Obama’s oratory concealed continued drone strikes and mosque surveillance

Evidence

That was, after all, Obama’s genius. Words were weapons designed to lull and disarm and then, when all defenses were down, the drones were deployed abroad and informants were carefully placed in American mosques. President Obama was fully wed to the War on Terror, but an iteration of it that aligned with neoliberal strategy and sensibilities. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 299

Categorization

• CANDY: The ‘words were weapons meant to lull’ framing of Obama’s rhetoric is a punchy elevator-conversation line.
• XREF: connects to: Barack Obama authorized killing US citizens abroad via drone without trial — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 508; Obama’s rebranded war on terror kept drone and special-forces targeting against Muslims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 507