[Unam Sanctam]

People use military metaphors all the time, e.g., "war on drugs," war on poverty", etc. Sheesh!

[coloradan]

The phrase "War On Drugs" is no metaphor. It is being fought with military funding, equipment, personel, a specific exemption of the posse comitatus act, and with the military objective of to "kill and destroy" rather than the LE objective of "to serve and protect," and there are "acceptable losses" and collateral damage. Peruvian missionary planes shot out of the sky and the wreckage strafed with machine gun fire, people shot in their beds in their home by paramilitary assault squads... The damage extends beyond human lives, too, with the erosion of civil and Constitutional rights far beyond the realm of drug dealing. It is no metaphor at all - it's cold, hard reality.