Listened to some talk radio, and even reading my very liberal Seattle rags, it seems folk are more than a little disappointed at Obama, why?

The man was out front in all his objections to military use in fighting the "enemy" of the US around the world.
He put his belief in action, even winning the Nobel peace award before any peace came about, by extending dialogue to those entities that had not our best interest as trump.

OK, we have seen these folk don't do "compromise" and use the opportunity as advancement.

Is this such a bad thing for trying?

If war is the answer, again, why do we always seem to need war, again?

Personally, I have no answers, but I see that war has failed just as much as dialogue has. What will work?