War-on-terror rhetoric was calibrated to stimulate fear and sideline reason

Evidence

Barry Glassner has described how war-on-terror rhetoric was carefully calibrated to stimulate fear, allowing for more visceral responses and the sidelining of reason. Such responses tended to encourage blind faith in the sagacity of politicians in time of war. … In 2006, the Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap laid out plans for information warfare, including “the creation of ‘Truth Squads’ to provide public ‘information’ to counter negative publicity.” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 202

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the information/persuasion machinery reading against Naqvi’s novel about anti-terror investigations and Hamid’s embedded-narration technique.
• SHARE: The Pentagon ‘Truth Squads’ 2006 detail is exactly the kind of thing a scholar of counterterror discourse would want flagged.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 202