It seems increasingly clear that the post-Cold War/pre-9/11 era (1991-2001) will be seen by historians the way the 1920s are today — a time of decadence in which gathering domestic and foreign threats were neglected or ignored altogether. I was reminded of this by a New York Times article titled “American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot”, but the list of policy failures also includes global warming, health care, and terrorism