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I think that you forgot the most unsuccessful "War" of all - Johnson's "War on Poverty". IMO, it's one of those fantastic ideas that never should have made it off the drawing board since it was doomed from the start. A few of the programs that came out of it were resounding successes (Head Start is the most obvious), but pretty much every other one failed and failed miserably. The War on Poverty did nothing to help the inner cities that it targeted, and it left the rural poor to find their own ways out. And that's not to mention that, depending on which school of economic thought you belong to, the War on Poverty directly attributed to the inflation and recession of the late 70's.
To address the actual point of your post, I don't think that either of the two "Wars" that you mention have accomplished much, if anything at all, other than to make Americans more paranoid.
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