"Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Ho...

		otherusername on Dec 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punct... "Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s". We've been using it as a metaphor since 1930's. It hasn't impaired the "real" usage of the word "War" so far. I doubt it will in the future.

To be fair, the US has always been at war with Eastasia.