On the word War

I ran across this and I am not sure what I want to do with it, but it was a pithy statement, representative of the current times, and I did not want to loose it.

"Just as mass murder is not necessarily terrorism, so mass murder and terrorism are not necessarily war. Indeed, their perpetrators often choose mass murder and terrorism precisely for lack of the political standing, power, resources, numbers to wage war....Any attempt to destroy life and property, without an objective of conquest, is a criminal act, and its perpetrators merit prosecution under criminal statutes...When the word war is taken to justify the arbitrary exercise of power in the absence of war, metaphorical language may become an instrument of tyranny." Barbara Fields, Columbia University (2003) from page xxi of the B&N Classic of Sun Tzu's the Art of War.