Parallels are being drawn between President Donald Trump’s strategies and former President George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” following the 9/11 attack on the U.S.

Axios reported the similarities include ordering pre-emptive military strikes against overseas foes, sending detained people to prisons outside the U.S., stamping people with a label of “terrorist” as a combined legal and political strategy, and relying on national security designations to withhold information from courts.

The report reviewed former Bush’s sending people detained by the government to the U.S. Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba and other sites around the world. Trump has done the same thing and to a greater extent.

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