Mistakes!

Barack Obama: "Some of America's Most Costly Mistakes Come from Relying Too Much on the Military."

That's the President. Saying it. A most obvious and glaring understatement. So glad he verbalized it. In my lifetime, I think of the human wreckage on all sides from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Long, grinding, demoralizing wars.  At least two of them probably illegal, and certainly unnecessary and trumped up.

Just because we have the largest military mammoth ever conceived by man, doesn't mean we really have to use it. Sometimes wreaking death and destruction really doesn't solve a damn thing.  That's worth keeping in mind.