You probably want exactly what I want: NO American involvement in the ME, at all. NO support of Israel until it allows Palestinian statehood. UN voting to lead to long-delayed sanctions against the criminal state of Israel.
I favor incarcerating Wall St. criminals.
And a large tax on fuel to be used to subsidize alternatives.
I believe in universal free health care.
And I'd slash the Defense Dept. budget 50%.
But, though these things all are defensible and I believe they would be best for our nation, I realize these things are not going to happen.
The best we can hope for is to make small inroads: that's how change happens. With your attitudes, we would have had a far worse country. More Bush, pere. And McCain. Perhaps Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney.
You couldn't argue we'd be better off.
As far as Obama: we are FAR less militarily involved in Afghanistan or Iraq, Syria or Iran. We are not at war.
"Punting" isn't an option, Lynn.
"The enemy of the good is the perfect".