Humanity can't help but interfere. We are meddlers. Some of us more than the others. We can't help taking a high stand (even though it isn't required) or take up the role of a protector (though no one has asked for) or just do what we think is the right thing to do (though the definition of right and wrong has some serious perverse definitions). 
 Being at war is the thing to do. Its the way the world has shaped up. When not being at war, we are at the verge of one. Or anticipating one. It is in nature of man to explore, occupy and then sell the idea to others that this was the best thing that could ever happen, collateral damage be damned. 
 Its a hard hitting book with few passages seemingly stemming from author's own disenchantment from the military and post Vietnam troubles.