""It is an overall USA imperial policy in the world that I'm really concerned about, a policy that's been in effect ever since the end of WWII, and it is being actively pursued by both of the major USA parties.""

It is my belief that you are attempting to bolster a pet argument by extrapolating from an obsolete basis.

You don't know (none of us do) that Obama intends, or ever intended to pursue the line you claim.

The mere fact that he made a very determined attempt at universal health care in the USA is a huge and courageous departure from previous policy in the USA, notwithstanding that obstructive tactics of the GOP watered it down.

This alone flags up a strong indication of a President who isn't afraid to break the mould and go for something better.

His record on war is not of his making. He was handed a situation in which the only thing worse than having troops in Afghanistan would be to withdraw them too soon.

Unless he gets a second term in office with a decent majority in Senate and Congress, we shall never know how much he might have achieved.

All that we DO know really, is that he was and is deliberately prevented from doing anything, good or bad, by a bunch of obstructive arseholes, who don't give two shits about their country or its people, as long as they keep making money out of it.

Don T.