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Gabriel Kolko is regarded as the leading historian of modern warfare. In his book, Another Century of War, Kolko examines the post 9/11 era by concentrating on the events leading up to it. Kolko concludes that all of U.S. policies in the Middle East have been contradictory and counterproductive. Furthermore, he blames the ineffective and instable U.S. foreign policy of producing “disasters at home” (p. 87) and the U.S. government for considering the failed foreign policy as the “only way to relate to the continuous and growing problems of a world that was already far too complex for it to manage fifty years ago.” (p. 87) Bottom line, U.S. has been “adrift for decades” (p. 146) interfering in foreign governments, thus, there is plenty of stored hatred that is now retaliated by such means as the September 11 attack. Kolko’s initiates the discussion by asserting that “the United States is now the sole nation with the ambition and presumably the military power and economic resources to rearrange the political destinies of states in whatever corner of the world it chooses to intervene.” (p. viii) Since the U.S. is ready to intervene virtually anywhere, we are doomed for recipes for failure and for more wars. Kolk