That sounds vaguley familiar, where have I heard it before. Ah yes the trailer to TUC.
Anyone Else Tired of the "wars"?
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That sounds vaguley familiar, where have I heard it before. Ah yes the trailer to TUC.
Knight Templar
Commodore
You're both right. They were in different trailers for the same movie.
Damn it J, you beat me to it. I was born in the 60's, I remember the Flower Children and there slogan.
EDIT: Never post while talking on the phone, you could miss something while proofing. As it was Shamelessly pointed out, there was supposed to be their.
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Damn it J, you beat me to it. I was born in the 60's, I remember the Flower Children and there slogan.
I'm launching a war on bad grammar ...
Damn it J, you beat me to it. I was born in the 60's, I remember the Flower Children and there slogan.
I'm launching a war on bad grammar ...
Jackass
But I earned it.
Maybe I'll just launch my own War on Grammar Nazis
BRING IT. 
Then along came AIDS a decade later, and the slogan was “Make war, not love. War’s safer!”
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The notorious and bloody Eugenics Wars cost 37 million lives and led to one strongman with tight, oily pectoral muscles ruling a quarter of the globe. Those were some mighty dange...
Wait. Did...did they even happen? I don't...really remember them. But if they didn't...then how did...
Damn you, continuity porn!!!
Wait. Did...did they even happen? I don't...really remember them. But if they didn't...then how did...
Damn you, continuity porn!!!
How about a war on Reality TV Shows, that on I'd be up for. 
Bingo. The practical utility of the metaphor that others have highlighted is certainly part of the story, but American culture also plays a part in its penchant for such metaphors.
That American culture is basically warlike (as opposed to explaining the nation's near-constant state of war with reference to extrinsic or structural factors) is now something approaching conventional wisdom. Robert Kagan, darling of both the Republican and Democrat establishments, recently acknowledged as much:
This account is somewhat simplistic in that ignores the means by which American public opinion is shaped -- a process involving almost exclusively establishment, vested, and moneyed interests -- but it can at least be said that Americans are unusually receptive to the rhetoric of war.
Explaining why this is so is something folks could write entire books about, and indeed several have been written. Many would point to America's national origins in conflict (against the British that is, the natives are unlikely to get a look-in here) and it seems unlikely that the firearms ownership rate is an entirely unrelated phenomenon.
Perhaps less obvious is American preponderance itself: there is in the modern American experience no reason not to embrace war. War in the modern American experience is something that produces benefits (in that presumably the conflict serves American interests) without obvious costs. One could argue that many of America's wars (and "wars") have failed, but the question is whom have they failed? Objectively the War on Drugs may be a total disaster, but who is it a disaster for? Certainly not the politicians who instituted and maintain it, the agencies that prosecute it or the industry that supports them. Nor for the social classes that support those policies. And of course this applies more broadly: see Eisenhower, military-industrial-congressional complex, etc. The American people may suffer under wars and "wars", but America does not. All of which goes to support Data Holmes' point.
The other point that induced me to post here was the inclusion by the OP of the 'War on Drugs' on the list of things that [implicitly] aren't really wars. The War on Drugs is a war: ask Latin America. Or US Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D) whose 1988 New York Times op-ed could be considered a monument to the power of war rhetoric (both emotive and literal) in mainstream American political discourse. Excerpt:
So, yeah: war!
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Damn it J, you beat me to it. I was born in the 60's, I remember the Flower Children and there slogan.
EDIT: Never post while talking on the phone, you could miss something while proofing. As it was Shamelessly pointed out, there was supposed to be their.
Flower children were awesome. Sure they didn't bathe, but by god you got some sweet, sweet, sookie sookie out of it. Also, the clap.
I still prefer love over war. Plus, there are always condoms. It's like wrapping your valentine in a latex envelope of love, and having it ribbed, for her pleasure.
The War on Jersey Shore should be waged...and with extreme prejudice. Snooki is the greatest danger to our children as well as our children's children. No expense should be spared in the drive to victory over the greasy washboard abs of The Situation. They are the work of the Jersey Devil and an affront to all that America stands for.
The notorious and bloody Eugenics Wars cost 37 million lives and led to one strongman with tight, oily pectoral muscles ruling a quarter of the globe. Those were some mighty dange...
Wait. Did...did they even happen? I don't...really remember them. But if they didn't...then how did...
Damn you, continuity porn!!!
Bill Clinton could have been known as our greatest wartime president for defeating Khan and the other Augments in his first term, but all those accomplishments were forgotten by his second thanks to his lasciviousness. The penis mightier than the sword, at least in terms of media coverage.
Knight Templar
Commodore
The notorious and bloody Eugenics Wars cost 37 million lives and led to one strongman with tight, oily pectoral muscles ruling a quarter of the globe. Those were some mighty dange...
Wait. Did...did they even happen? I don't...really remember them. But if they didn't...then how did...
Damn you, continuity porn!!!
Bill Clinton could have been known as our greatest wartime president for defeating Khan and the other Augments in his first term, but all those accomplishments were forgotten by his second thanks to his lasciviousness. The penis mightier than the sword, at least in terms of media coverage.
He was if you read those two novels by Greg Cox IIRC.
Never!
Everyone who's anyone knows the real answer to this particular dilemma.
"None of the above."
XBOX 360, baby.