War on Terror propaganda preceded and outpaced the war itself.

Evidence

Mark Twain deftly wrote, “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.” The Bush administration took a page out of Twain’s book and unleashed an aggressive propaganda blitz before any bullets were fired or any boots landed on foreign soil. The facts were the first victims of the War on Terror, and the disfiguration of the facts primed the terrain for a new crusade waged in the name of democracy but staged to broaden American empire. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 215

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Category: Causal Relationships

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• War on Terror propaganda preceded and pre-framed military action (similarity 0.97)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment predated and undergirded the War on Terror (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.83)
• The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.82)
• The war on terror fought a parallel battle over the nature of reality (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror was deliberately marketed globally from its start (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror taught the public to equate extremism with Islam. (similarity 0.82)
• The War on Terror spawned numerous successor wars worldwide (similarity 0.82)
• Each successive president advanced rather than curtailed the War on Terror (similarity 0.82)
• The US War on Terror gave other nations a sanctioned template for suppressing Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• The War on Terror conditioned voters to demand explicitly Islamophobic leadership (similarity 0.81)
• War on Terror conditioning produced the demand Trump satisfied (similarity 0.81)
• Revenge, not facts, redirected the War on Terror toward all of Islam (similarity 0.80)
• War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal (similarity 0.80)
• The War on Terror draws its ideology from Orientalism’s invented past (similarity 0.80)