The United States exported War on Terror ideology for other nations to reproduce

Evidence

Everything was the same. Everything except the labels, the laws, and the casing that concealed the same lies. Said’s master discourse, Orientalism, laid the intellectual foundation for understanding the hate that Washington crafted into the War on Terror, which it then globalized and exported. It was shipped off like a new line of Chevy trucks—manufactured at first by American hands on Detroit assembly lines, but then handed off to others to manufacture more inexpensively for the benefit of the brain trust at home. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 277

Categorization

• XREF: The manufacturing/outsourcing metaphor parallels how American Islamophobic framing gets localized and re-manufactured in other national contexts — the very comparative mechanism the reader is tracking across the book. — connects to: The war on terror authorized a unilateral US break from global rules and institutions