Definitive?

As we experience presidents during their term in office,
we are led to wonder which of their statements will be,
in the end, definitive of their leadership. Yesterday, in
a press conference winding down the nuclear summit
he hosted, President Obama stated what I think will,
in the end, define his presidency.

"It is a vital national security interest of the United States
to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not,
we remain a dominant military superpower. And when
conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled
into them."

-Barack Obama April 14, 2010

This statement has so many layers of ideology in
it that my comments cannot do it justice without
writing an entire book on the topic. That being said,
I think it is best left to each reader to see what they
see in it. Obama's statement is memorialized here
because it is important.

Bill Vajk