So is the War on Terror.
I really don't trust my government to declare war on anything any more. The kind of wars they should be deliberating and declaring they instead default to Presidential Whim so they don't have to put a vote on the record.
The premise of the article is a little foolish. Just like the war on drugs, the war on murder, rape, robbery, etc., hasn’t eliminated those crimes either. Sin will never be eliminated by a government program. However the purpose of government is to keep it under control, and that is the limit of what government can do.