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 on, war and/or terror:
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)
“—Thus their hands are plucking at each other;
Picking at the rope-knouts of their scourging;
Snatching after us who smote them, brother,
Pawing us who dealt them war and madness.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)