See, I don't hear what you hear, Nick, from Obama... I don't hear him saying things that would lead reasonable people to see him as some kind of war-monger or someone who sees military solutions to larger world problems...

He and Bill Richardson are probabbly the two Democrats who come accross as folks who are willing to sit down ***Now*** with our enemies... This is a ***major*** paradyme shift over what we have endured for decades... War maongers don't make these kinds of offers...

Yes, it will take some cultural changes for the world to take on a new and safer paradyme and in the interim the world will still be involved in "hot wars", where folks are either killing one another or planning to do it...

For Obama to say that, given intellegence that there waer some folks in Pakistan planning on attacking US, that he would try to get them first is not an unreasonable position... Anyone running for the Presidency who says they wouldn't is not fit for the job...

Big deal...

This does not make him a war monger... Just a man who sees the big picture while also keeping a close eye on the many smaller ones...

Bobert