Obama’s rhetoric masked 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
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: The rhetoric-as-weapon mechanism parallels the reader’s interest in state learning and adaptation of techniques.
Related
- Obama’s rebranded war on terror kept drone and special-forces targeting against Muslims (similarity 0.91)
- Obama’s oratory concealed continued drone strikes and mosque surveillance (similarity 0.90)
- Obama’s presidency mutated and advanced rather than ended the war on terror (similarity 0.89)
- Obama’s conciliatory rhetoric masked continued drone and surveillance warfare (similarity 0.87)
- Obama’s mosque speech contradicted its own stated aims through CVE promotion. (similarity 0.86)
- Obama’s defense guidance explicitly continued the war on terror after bin Laden (similarity 0.85)
- Obama continued the War on Terror through rhetorical seduction. (similarity 0.85)
- Failed counterinsurgency forced Obama back to counterterrorism and drone warfare (similarity 0.84)
- Failed Iraq and Afghan wars drove Obama toward a rebranded smarter war on terror (similarity 0.84)
- Obama’s mosque visit aimed to enlist Muslims as CVE policing informants. (similarity 0.83)
- Obama’s inclusive rhetoric coexisted with surveillance that later licensed Trump’s explicit Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
- Obama framed even anti-Islamic acts in national-security terms rather than religious freedom. (similarity 0.83)
- Obama’s counter-radicalization strategy deputized citizens to surveil their own communities (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim surveillance thrived under the Obama administration (similarity 0.82)
- Obama’s surveillance state mainstreamed Islamophobia that enabled Trump’s victory (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims.
#corroborates(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 295 - Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest
#corroborates(0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 483 - Muslim surveillance thrived under the Obama administration
#corroborates(0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 458 - Obama framed even anti-Islamic acts in national-security terms rather than religious freedom.
#expands(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 524 - Obama continued the War on Terror through rhetorical seduction.
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 296 - Obama’s counter-radicalization strategy turned Muslim communities into informants
#expands(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 582 - Liberal Islamophobia under Obama worsened conditions for Muslims at home and abroad
#expands(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 436 - Obama’s drone campaign targeted five Muslim-majority countries and violated international law.
#expands(0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 300 - Obama’s defense guidance continued the War on Terror via drones and special forces
#expands(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 433