America has a deep passion for declaring “wars” on abstract entities: the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, the War on Terror. It’s a strange usage, because traditionally, wars are carried out between two groups of human beings, rather than between a group of human beings and a vague concept. But if you look at the actual practice of these conceptual wars, you’ll see that there is a group of human beings being targeted: non-white people! The Wars on Drugs and Crime are, effectively, wars on urban blacks, while the War on Terror is a war on the swarthy.
This is why, for instance, it can make sense that people are discussing moving the NYC police commissioner, who carried out the racist War on Drugs/Crime, to the head of Homeland Security, where he’d be helping out with the racist War on Terror. It’s a transferable skill-set.