Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 Years After 911 by Deepa Kumar

Author:Deepa Kumar [Kumar, Deepa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788737210
Google: 9Io8EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2021-11-15T23:28:09.693365+00:00

The document continues, “US forces will no longer be sized to conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations.”40 Instead, the political class drew the lesson that the way to achieve its objectives is through missions like the NATO military campaign in Libya, which involved air power and relied on local allies on the ground. In sum, Obama’s imperial posture involved trying to establish US hegemony in Asia (preventing the rise of China) and in the Middle East (containing Iran) through multilateral alliances and the use of air strikes, drone attacks, counterterrorism, and special operations forces as well as cyber warfare. In short, despite the Right’s charge that Obama was a “secret Muslim agent” working on behalf of foreign governments, he was in reality a liberal imperialist at the helm of a nation trying to reassert its domination in an increasingly multipolar world.

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