Summarizing this Alternet article.
War On Terror
- War was the appropriate means to stop terrorists (Iraq War was justified as a response to 9/11)
Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism
- Global
- justifies going into any country anytime
- Struggle
- does not evoke war frame
- does not imply an end
- may not have a victory – vague mission
- dropping war takes the blame for failure away from the war policy, $200 billion and thousands of lives
- Violent
- if they’re violent, it justifies using violence against them
- expect the US to use violence
- applies both abroad and at home
- set up for the suppression of opposition at home
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