The "War on ..." as a phrase snuck into our lexicon sometime after World War II and for some reason we have not been able to shake it off. There was the war on poverty, then the war on drug, and now the war on terror. These three wars have at at best mixed out comes for the west, particularly for the US. As a result of the war on terror, American black males are more likely to go to jail today, than go to college - 40% more likely today than in the 1960s, just before the assault on their liberty, tagged the war on terror became the law of the land. 40 years on, American has become the incarceration capital of the world, with its prisons bursting at the seams, literarily. This one war, America lost.