Bill Moyers Quote

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

"The Meaning of Freedom", Sol Feinstone Lecture at the United States Military Academy (15 November 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 78

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a war on terror — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the...

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a war on terror — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the...

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a war on terror — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the...

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a war on terror — exactly what, pray tell, is that? — to the...