It isn't so much about Obama, it's the SYSTEM

Been giving it some more thought - and I think it really comes down to this:

1. Obama is a militarist - he was not hiding this when he made escalating the war in Afghanistan one of his election platforms.

2. Obama, just like the vast majority of US citizens, was born and raised into a society permeated with imperialistic attitudes. He may not have even been consciously aware of these in his early life, but now he has to act in an imperialistic manner in order to keep his job. Just look at the way his secretary of state Hillary Clinton is describing Manuel Zelaya's totally legitimate attempt to re-gain his job as Honduras' president as "irresponsible." No mention by her that some of the military officers involved in overthrowing Zelaya were trained at the "School of the Americas," that training ground for death squads, in Fort Benning Georgia.

3. Obama has basically become a political coward. He's just like the vast majority of politicians who rise to the top levels. They have to renege on the promises that get them elected, for reasons I stated above, in Paragraph #2. Most people who achieve maximum power wish to remain in power, it's just human nature.