The wars on terror killed hundreds of thousands and displaced tens of millions

Evidence

The attacks provided policy makers with a larger than life enemy, “Islamic terrorism,” against which a global war was necessary. Seizing the moral high ground of a nation under attack, the foreign policy establishment resurrected empire, as historian Rashid Khalidi argued in his book Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. The wars on Afghanistan and Iraq followed soon after. In fact, in the first two decades of the war on terror, as the Preface notes, hundreds of thousands have been killed while tens of millions have been displaced. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 480

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete casualty/displacement figures to file against the human cost claims in the vault’s imperial-warfare material. — connects to: War on Terror killed 400,000 directly and 800,000 indirectly; US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan killed hundreds of thousands of civilians — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 39; The War on Terror spawned numerous successor wars worldwide — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 290 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• War on Terror killed 400,000 directly and 800,000 indirectly #corroborates (1.00)
• US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan killed hundreds of thousands of civilians #corroborates (0.95) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 39
• The War on Terror spawned numerous successor wars worldwide #expands (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 290
• The American War on Terror escalated into mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad #corroborates (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 156
• The War on Terror extended decades of American imperial aggression against Muslims. #expands (0.70)