Post-Katrina America imported its own military tactics from the Iraq war to domestic soil

Evidence

In the name of securing the city, New Orleans was quickly turned into an armed military camp. Combat-ready forces went door-to-door urban warfare style, kicking down locked entrances searching for survivors to evacuate at the end of often fully loaded AK47s. While critics were rightly bemoaning the dehumanizing conduct of war abroad, few seemed to notice that for domestic purposes America was mimicking tactics of militarization honed in the desert war. America, in short, has taken to turning itself into armed and gated camps at home. Its regime of social truth today is shaped principally by a military mind-set circulated and recirculated by all those retired generals appearing on the nightly news programs advising the public on how to read the day’s events. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 434 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Domestic disaster response has adopted tactics of overseas militarization — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 434; US counterinsurgency logic fused foreign and domestic Arabs into one terrorist threat; The Iraq War’s failure forced a rhetorical shift from unilateral coercion to counterinsurgency — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 489 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Domestic disaster response has adopted tactics of overseas militarization #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 434