"The Mind-Set That Got Us Into War"

"I don't want to just end the war, I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place."

     -Barack Obama

I don’t know if that can be done, but don’t we have to try?

John McCain thinks this war was a good idea. He wants us in Iraq indefinitely, or forever, whichever comes first.

Hillary refuses still to call her vote to authorize war a mistake.

Is Obama the only one who sees the big picture?

(I wrote a piece on that big picture here, in case you missed it.)

The war against “radical Islamic extremists” is NOT, as McCain tried to argue in Boca Raton,  “the transcendent challenge of the 21st century.”

The real transcendent challenge is to change “the mind-set that got us into war in the first place”.

If we don’t, we’ll get more of the same. This issue trumps all others. All others! Barack Obama is the one remaining viable presidential candidate from either side that will even suggest that we need to change our mind-set about war.

We have to give him the chance.

(Note: I posted this at OpEdNews.Com, and last I checked it was #1 on Reddit's "hot list" with 272 comments. I cannot imagine (honestly) why, but all that chatter motivated me to post it here as well.)