You Want a Metaphor? You Can't Handle a Metaphor!
In her defense, the former commanding officer at Abu Ghraib
says:
In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio broadcast Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski said Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller told her last autumn that prisoners "are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them."
Sounds like the general needs some intuition into the meaning of
simile and its relationship to reality.