In this work Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett takes a second look at U.S. relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan Iran and Iraq Bahrain and Yemen Libya and Somalia; and sees a continuing BREAKDOWN that worsens in act and consequence. She then presents herown ideas and worldview; and a challenge to embrace a nonviolent transformative inclusive progressivism imbued with a sense of global society a sensibility that inspires constructive continuous forward movement.