That was, after all, Obama’s genius. Words were weapons designed to lull and disarm and then, when all defenses were down, the drones were deployed abroad and informants were carefully placed in American mosques. President Obama was fully wed to the War on Terror, but an iteration of it that aligned with neoliberal strategy and sensibilities.

XREF: Challenges the popular framing of Obama as a departure from Bush-era counterterrorism policy, connecting to broader critiques of 'neoliberal' governance and soft-power rhetoric.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 299