{"id":131,"date":"2016-11-18T00:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2016-11-20T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T21:16:50","slug":"trumps-global-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/trumps-global-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Global War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row \"><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-xs-12 col-sm-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Stephen_Reese_-_bw.png\" alt=\"stephen_reese_-_bw\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Stephen_Reese_-_bw.png 256w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Stephen_Reese_-_bw-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Stephen_Reese_-_bw-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ProfileText3\">\n<p class=\"BIO\"><strong><span class=\"CharOverride-35\">Prof Stephen D. Reese<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><em>Jesse H. Jones Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Moody College of Communication in the School of Journalism, University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"BIO\"><span class=\"EMAIL\">Email: steve.reese@austin.utexas.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.electionanalysis2016.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-300x300.png\" alt=\"US2016 - Section 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-768x767.png 768w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-1024x1022.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US2016-Section-3.png 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"CampaignQuote3\">Section 3: Policy<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page-list\"><ul class=\"list-group-item\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-119\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/trump-clinton-was-expected-to-be-close-the-economy-said-so\/\">Trump-Clinton was expected to be close: the economy said so<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-121\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/picking-up-the-pieces-the-2016-us-presidential-election-and-immigration\/\">Picking up the pieces: the 2016 US Presidential Election and immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-123\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/a-bilingual-campaign-clintons-latino-political-communication\/\">A bilingual campaign: Clinton\u2019s Latino political communication<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-125\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/how-the-wall-with-mexico-symbolizes-the-utopia-of-trumps-supporters\/\">How the wall with Mexico symbolizes the Utopia of Trump\u2019s supporters<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-129\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/after-the-election-trumps-wall\/\">After the election: Trump\u2019s wall<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-133\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/will-trump-continue-obamas-legacy-of-drone-strikes\/\">Will Trump continue Obama\u2019s legacy of drone strikes?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-135\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/loose-cannons-or-the-silent-debate-on-drones\/\">Loose cannons: or the silent debate on drones<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-137\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/guns-return-to-american-elections\/\">Guns return to American elections<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-139\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/president-trump-and-climate-change\/\">President Trump and climate change<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-141\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/dark-days-ahead-for-our-climate\/\">Dark days ahead for our climate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"col-lg-9 col-md-9 col-xs-12 col-sm-9\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"FIRST-PARA\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">Many things seem obvious in retrospect, including the US presidential election of Donald Trump, who campaigned on the same populist energy driving political movements in the UK. and elsewhere. One thing that becomes more clear in light of post-election surveys is the role of terrorism as an issue, and how it can be exploited to generate and direct fear among citizens. Trump was able to effectively incorporate this fear into his \u201cMake America Great\u201d masterframe. In this respect, he built on a rhetorical foundation established 15 years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\">After September 11, 2001, the administration of George Bush announced its Global War on Terrorism, a framing that has shown remarkable resilience since then in spite of its shortcomings as a way to organize foreign policy responses (How does one fight against a tactic?). Since that time the frame has become deeply embedded in political discourse. An organization called the \u2018Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation\u2019 has even recently advocated building a suitable monument in Washington, D.C. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/11\/opinion\/america-needs-a-war-on-terror-veterans-memorial.html\"><span class=\"Hyperlink\">Scruggs, 2016<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">Although President Obama avoided the frame himself, Trump capitalized on it (even recruiting \u2018Mayor of 9\/11\u2019 Rudy Giuliani as one of his closest advisers). Surveys showed that among voters listing \u2018terrorism\u2019 as an important issue, Trump was the significantly preferred candidate. Why was he deemed more effective than Hillary Clinton, in spite of much of the foreign policy establishment supporting her?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">Trump more effectively appealed to fear, linking fear of terrorism to fear of the Other, specifically Muslims. His Republican convention acceptance address, already noted by other observers, underscored the dark tone of his appeal. In this respect, his anti-terrorism strategy (\u201cWe will destroy ISIS.\u201d) lined up with his nationalist protectionism and related xenophobia. A proposed ban on Muslims entering the US was a natural extension of those policies and served to further diagnose the problem in the minds of the voters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">My interviews several years ago with American journalists showed they had a hard time defining the War on Terror frame when Bush was invoking it to justify Afghanistan and later Iraq. They said, \u201cWe all know what it means.\u201d Moving into that ambiguous space Trump was able to equate it with \u2018Radical Islam\u2019, providing reason enough for his supporters to be wary of Muslims. In linking terrorism with a major world religion Obama had declared that phrase to be an unhelpful analysis, and one that even helped confirm the extremists\u2019 ideology. He was attacked accordingly by Trump and Giuliani, who were able to promote a more simple diagnosis\u2014one that regrettably risked playing into the hands of extremist groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">Of course, a simplistic solution to a complex problem is always seductive. In the face of unvarnished, shoot-from-the-hip Republican rhetoric, the multi-factor and contextualized explanation for extremism risks sounding not \u2018authentic\u2019, a deadly sin in current political communication, failing to fit the rapid-fire social media and 24\/7 news environment. Thus, the institutional press had a difficult time engaging with a more\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"REGULAR\">complex but realistic approach to the problem of terrorism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">I was concerned that perhaps a late-campaign terrorist attack\u2014either in the US or abroad&#8211;would benefit Trump\u2019s messaging and distort the election, but, as it turned out, the fear had been there all along. For Americans, 9\/11 breached their expectations that the government would keep them safe, and that breach has not been fully resolved. Ultimately, however, security is not a sustainable national value, so eventually \u2014 as with promises to bring back the coal mines, steel mills, and a world gone by \u2014 voters will soon see that Trump will not be able to deliver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Basic-Paragraph-US\"><span class=\"REGULAR\">US journalism has been faulted for decades for its preoccupation with campaign tactics and lack of policy coverage, but in this election more thoughtful analysis was desperately needed to counteract Trump\u2019s xenophobic extension of Bush\u2019s War on Terror. We will need it even more during the next four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Global War on Terror - US Election Analysis 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.electionanalysis.ws\/us\/president2016\/us-election-analysis-2016\/section-3-policy\/trumps-global-war-on-terror\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Global War on Terror - 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