Edward S. Herman and and David Peterson break it down: there is no “War on Terror.”

Money quotes:

Failure to end terrorism is not a failure of the “war on terror,” it is a necessary part of its machinery of operation.

It is widely argued now that the war on terror has been a failure. This also is a fallacy, resting on the imputation of purpose to the war’s organizers contrary to their actual aims — they were looking for and found the new “Pearl Harbor” needed to justify a surge of U.S. force projection across the globe.