One year later: How Obama has learned to become a wartime commander in chief – Washington Post

The Washington Post has an interesting piece today entitled One year later: How Obama has learned to become a wartime commander in chief .  Essentially the author can find no real and substantive difference in the overseas military actions of Dubya and Obama.    Here is an excerpt:

“But even as Obama has sought to convey an image of a deliberate leader preoccupied with the battle’s human toll, he has used military power at least as aggressively as his Republican predecessor did during the waning years of his administration. In his first year in office, Obama has set in motion plans to triple the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan; expanded operations against U.S. enemies in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen; and, in one early instance of his willingness to use deadly force, authorized Special Forces snipers to kill three Somali pirates holding an American hostage.”

Let me ask you a question, did you expect this last year prior to the election?  Is this what you thought would have happened in this administration?  Me neither.  The article is a good read and shows the real mess of expecting peace when the powerful in our country simply want unending war in order to make their portfolios bulge with ill-gotten gains.

It is time for major changes in our paradigms.  That much, at least, is certain now.