The issue focused on a report in the New York Times, "A War of Consequences: The U.S. and its Post-9/11 Wars."

"I was out to dinner with an old friend. I said, 'We have a long way to go. It is not as if we are at war. We are not even at a point where the world is more or less at peace. This is a new level. The world is not as it was. In other words