Yup. That's the 900-lb gorilla in the room. The Israeli/Palestinian problem. And then there's the oil.

I think there are huge forces in play steering American policy that no American president can do much about, except at dire peril of losing his own life while in office. I'm not surprised that Obama has done so little to live up to the enormous expectations people had of him...I'm just disappointed. But it was clear even before he got elected that he was going to continue the basic imperial policies in regards to both foreign wars and Israel. He's doing what the military and the corporations want him to do, in my opinion, and that's what they all do once elected. Or they die in office.

John Kennedy died in office. I think he was the last president who dared to oppose the military-industrial complex.