Since the outbreak of the "War on Terror"

are you freer now  as a woman, gay, a member of a religious minority, 
or someone who professes no religion 
in Iraq, Libya, or most of Syria 
than you were under the dictatorship of Saddam, Qaddafi, or Assad ?
asks John Gray [here].
And since the many declarations of War against 'Drugs'
from the beginning of the 20th century onward,
have transnationally powerful mafias and drug cartels diminished ?
In the 1970s I shared a prison cell with a young student
who was serving a nine-month sentence for mere possession
of a small amount of Moroccan hash, handed down
by a magistrate who bought cocaine and raped little girls and boys.