The war on terror is nothing new in american history. It's an inflection point that reflects so much of the most violent, te racest and the most nativest currents to return to power under a patriotic emergency. Why does this profound domestic damage caused by the war on terr so often go unrecognized? The reason why the war on terror now appears so inconspicuous is because so much of it has simply become the normal way of conducting American form policy.