I've heard it said that, if all you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Surgeons are notorious for recommending surgery for just about any ailment. There are probably more examples of this. But the idea is that every person looks for a solution within the realm of our own experience.
This election year, American voters are faced with candidates who look for solutions through very different prisms.
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This quick read makes important points in a few sentences. As someone who has argued for thirty years and more, that the idiotic Vietnam War could have been "won" (if only a few hundred more billions of dollars had been poured into the rathole, a few million more people killed, etc.), John McCain quite obviously is a dangerous man to put in charge of deciding matters of war and peace. For McCain, having a hammer means looking for nails to pound. McCain's obsession with the employment of US military power as a "solution" to situations no amenable to the application of such power, clearly points to probable further disasters for the region, and the US, is he were to get into the White House.
