[JustPiper]

obama was advised that if he wanted to change the face of America, he should ignore the WOT and do the Hope and Change thing here at home

Who gave him this advise?

[MestaMachine]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100401743.html?

No Rush to Escalate

By E.J. Dionne Jr.
Monday, October 5, 2009

At a White House dinner with a group of historians at the beginning of the summer, Robert Dallek, a shrewd student of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, offered a chilling comment to President Obama.

“In my judgment,” he recalls saying, “war kills off great reform movements.” The American record is pretty clear: World War I brought the Progressive Era to a close. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was waging World War II, he was candid in saying that “Dr. New Deal” had given way to “Dr. Win the War.” Korea ended Harry Truman’s Fair Deal, and Vietnam brought Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society to an abrupt halt.