On all of these points, the concept of war, to paraphrase US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is not helpful. Even if the scale of the September 11 attack was of such a dimension that only the American army seemed able to face the challenge, in technical terms dealing with a threat that is extra-national rather than international is a matter of police techniques, not military tactics.
在所有这几点上，战争的该概念，用美国国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德的话来讲，都是无益的。即便是如9•11这样规模的，只有美国军方似乎才能够应对的挑战—在技术层面上，对付这种来自外国的，而不是国际的威胁应该使用警方专长而不是军事策略。