War On Terror
As a reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks the U.S. Government adopted several controversial measures (e.g., invading Iraq, applying "unlawful combatant" status to prisoners, conducting "extraordinary renditions", and "enhanced interrogation methods").
Read more about this topic: American War Crimes
Famous quotes containing the words war and/or terror:
“It does not disturb me that those whom I pardon are said to have deserted me so that
they might again bring war against me. I prefer nothing more than that I should be true to
myself and they to themselves.”
—Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)