Home-court advantage: what the war on drugs teaches us about the war on terrorism.
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Massing, Michael
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> "THIS IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CONFLICT," SAID General Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a Pentagon briefing in October. He was speaking of the war on terrorism. "The closest analogy would be the drug war." Since September 11, comparisons between the two wars have been rife: Both are said to involve an elusive and resourceful enemy capable of inflicting tremendous damage on the United States; both are cast as a long, drawn-out struggle that requires concentrated efforts on multiple fronts; and both are led by a powerful "czar" ...
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