“WE ARE AT WAR WITH al-QAEDA” is the concrete message, underlined every day in the media, whether from the mouth of the President or others.
Let’s replace “al-QAEDA” with the word, “HATRED”.
WE ARE AT WAR WITH HATRED. We want to kill our enemy, “HATRED”.
We certainly would not put out HATRED in our fight to get rid of HATRED.
That would be stupid.