Is the Global War on Terror a Roll Back?

There are several roll backs, but in each of them, far more of the architecture of the war on terror gets intrenched than is removed. There's no more military occupation of afghanistan or torture and blacksit programs - that's a big deal. But bulk surveillance not only remains a way of doing business that the intelligence agencies have; it amounts to a mass theft of americans data. The department of homeland security operates as a slush fund to take public money and distribute it under an extremely thin pretext of relevance to counter terrorism. That hasn't really moved the dial at all. We're talking about a useful a series of technologies, operations, organizational institutional culture, bureocratic