Machine generated contents note: 1 The War Comes Home -- 2 The Middle East: The Legacies of Failure 19 -- 3 The Trap: Afghanistan and the United States 45 -- 4 The Making of American Foreign Policy: Successes, and Failures 86 -- 5 Strategic Confusions 106 -- 6 Another Century of War? 138 --Sources and Notes 151 -- Index 159.