Enamoured of "these nuns"? Huh??? Say what? Naw...I prefer Winona Ryder.

But since I don't actually know whether or not Obama is in cahoots with certain western imperial powers that be, Bill, (those tied in with the major energy companies, for instance)...and you don't know either...I am venturing no final opinion of my own on the matter.

But you are protected by your faith...and your faith is apparently unshakable. Therefore you can feel safe to freely make categorical statements about it, even though you don't know.

I'm going to wait and see what he does in the next 3 and 1/4 years, and I'll go by that. I bet he dances to the tune of the engery companies just like the last 8 presidents did. If so, he'll continue waging (directly or by proxy) energy-based wars in the Middle East and Eurasia, and he'll pretend it's all about promoting democracy, protecting the USA from foreign attack, and stopping Al Quaeda. And most Americans will believe him.

And after him? Probably more of the same from whoever follows.

But get this: I like Mr Obama in a personal sense. I like his style. I like his general attitude. I don't like his inclinations to pursue a war in Afghanistan, however, because I know what's really driving it: the desire to move natural gas and oil from the Caspian region through pipelines down through Afghanistan into Pakistan and India and thence to the Indian Ocean. Also the desire to encircle Iran and eventually achieve regime change there and then convert Iran into a compliant political satellite state and get their energy resources too. That is what the New Great Game in that region is really about. It's about securing strategic territory and controlling vital energy reserves in the Middle East and central Asia, and it's a deadly serious game between the world's 3 major powers...the USA, Russia, and China. The Afghans are just pawns in that power game.