This actually is the 2nd War on "Drugs"; the first was Prohibition and we "lost" that one too. Similarly certain parties won; organized crime and at least one Irish extraction family whose name begins with a K.

Personnally I would advocate legalization and concentration on education and rehab versus continued a multi-billion effort to drain the swamp as the gators keep breeding.

Clarification of aims and development of a strategy not based on slogans or assumetric thinking remains a glaring need in this war and as you say Adam, "The War on Terror."

Tom