Revolutionary rhetoric can mask active counterrevolutionary alliances

Evidence

The “clash of civilizations” rhetoric therefore became dominant in the aftermath of 9/11 and was the ideological basis for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well domestic attacks on Muslims and Arabs. For a while it appeared that the neocons were unstoppable—but they overplayed their hand. During its first term, the Bush administration built a “coalition of the willing” to invade Iraq, rejecting criticisms from allies it derogatorily labeled “old Europe.” The war on Iraq, however, did not go the way the neocons wanted it to. Instead of greeting US forces as liberators, the Iraqi people resisted and rejected US hegemony. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hypernationalist rhetoric served to justify a supranational monopoly of power; Successful insurrection requires lengthy ideological preparation beforehand; Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421 (+6 more)

Related

• Juxtaposing contending ideologies lets thrillers move beyond war-on-terror binaries. (similarity 0.86)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks (similarity 0.84)
• Hypernationalist rhetoric served to justify a supranational monopoly of power (similarity 0.84)
• The War on Terror was ideologically framed as a civilizational clash (similarity 0.83)
• Popular ‘us versus them’ discourse can be recoded to support the power bloc (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism supplied the pre-existing tropes that the War on Terror redeployed against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• The Kite Runner’s binary oppositions calcify an America-versus-Afghanistan divide (similarity 0.81)
• Grand civilizational rubrics invent false collective identities that enable deadly conflicts (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror was a globalized crusade recruiting nations for domestic political gain (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muhammad tropes were repurposed to attack domestic political figures (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural brilliance can coincide with and mask political and military decadence (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Counterterrorism rhetoric masks an offensive campaign against Muslims. #exemplifies (0.90)
• Feminist rhetoric can function as a tool of imperial and nationalist agendas #exemplifies (0.85)
• Clash-of-civilizations rhetoric ideologically legitimized both foreign wars and domestic attacks #qualifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 421
• Alliances can serve as devices for surrendering freedom of choice #complicates (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 712