What is the 'war on terror'?

What is the 'war on terror'?

Erroll Southers (Former Deputy Director of the California Department of Homeland Security) gives expert video advice on: What is the 'war on terror'?; How high should the 'war on terror' be on our list of national priorities?; How does the 'war on terror' affect our civil liberties? and more...

First, terror is a strategy and it's difficult at best academically speaking to have a war against a strategy. Second, to suggest “the war” suggests there's a strategy for success. So, if the war on terror means that we're going to mitigate terrorism from ever happening again we will never win that war. Unfortunately this is much like the War on Drugs. The war on drugs has been around for as long as I've been alive and Narcotics trafficking is alive, and well, and prospering. So I would like to say that we have an effort here to contain terrorism. To reduce the risk of terrorism. And I think that's what you'll find Homeland Security, National Security agencies are engaged in, which is reducing that risk making that environment hostile for them to operate in, in order for them to be successful.