The American War on Terror, spearheaded by an administration bent on exacting revenge on a single terror network, has devolved into something unrecognizable from its original form. It has spawned a monster that has mutated wherever it has landed, that has been shaped and then reshaped by the histories and marching orders of its local host.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 161