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"The Mind-Set That Got Us Into War"

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"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.

 

 

Robert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur (more...)
 

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Robert by Mark Sashine on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 8:45:34 AM
I don't believe it is a mindset... by Cheri Roberts on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:31:53 AM
Cheri, please read this.... by Robert Sargent on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 12:03:51 PM
The lies begat the mindset by Sandy Sand on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 3:34:10 PM
there is another by guy handey on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 6:15:15 PM
I know... by Robert Sargent on Friday, Feb 1, 2008 at 6:42:12 PM
I don't get "Reddit"... by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 12:39:11 AM
Fearmongering Is The Mindset by aberamsay on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:04:10 AM
You may be right. by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:20:28 AM
It's not the "Bush Doctrine" by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:28:10 PM
HERE's what I think... by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:29:16 PM
Here! by Robert Sargent on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 2:31:20 PM
war mindset by Homeboy on Saturday, Feb 2, 2008 at 9:46:31 PM