War on Terror ideology sent marginalized Americans to die as imperial fodder

Evidence

There existed “civilization” and an irredeemably violent creed bent on destroying it. This civilizational paradigm emerged in the ideological engine that drove the War on Terror, summoning Americans living on the nation’s margins, like John, to be sent to a foreign land as fodder for a baseless fight. Fodder in the name of “freedom” that marches like empire, and from the vantage point of the millions of Muslims who have died in its name, “democracy” that strikes like terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 234

Categorization

• SEED: The phrase ‘democracy that strikes like terror’ — a reversible framing that could anchor a piece on Western self-exemption from the terrorism label.