Trump continued rather than ended the war on terror in three countries
Evidence
From Bush to Obama to Trump and now Biden, each executive presiding over the War on Terror steered it forward globally. This war was created in the name of protecting civilization, supplanted by a campaign where drones and spies donned the thin mask of harmony, and back to a trumped-up clash of civilizations orchestrated by an apocalyptic demagogue. A fluidly remade War on Terror that offered the world, and the constellation of nations that fed on the war, an American template for unleashing their own domestic crusades against an entire faith and its followers. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 306 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Despite anti-war campaign rhetoric, Trump expanded Obama’s war on terror in the region — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 522; Each successive president advanced rather than curtailed the War on Terror — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 306; Trump’s anti-Muslim measures continue rather than depart from prior policy — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 129 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Each successive president advanced rather than curtailed the War on Terror
#corroborates(0.92) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 306 - Every US president from Bush through Biden sustained the global War on Terror
#corroborates(0.90) - Anti-Muslim exclusion continued consistently across Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations
#expands(0.84) - Trump replaced global economic stewardship with nationalist unilateralism yet kept MENA hegemony
#expands(0.82) - The War on Terror mutated differently in each host country
#expands(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 161 - Trump’s anti-Muslim measures continue rather than depart from prior policy
#expands(0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 129