War metaphors mobilize public support for counterterror military action

Evidence

M. Brewster Smith (2002) provides a thoughtful analysis of the Bush administration’s metaphoric labeling of its retaliatory countermeasures as the “War on Terrorism.” War metaphors create a mind-set for war that helps to mobilize patriotic public support for military actions. Actual wars involve battles between nation-states, usually with one of them getting the better of it in the end. In contrast, al Qaeda is decentralized, a loosely interconnected network operating surreptitiously worldwide without a clear structure and extending its reach by coordinating the activities of its dispersed affiliates. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2305

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: War/labeling as framing parallels moral-panic framing arguments in the vault; the label-creation mechanism from the Islamophobia claims echoes here.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2305