Hmmmm:

Barack Obama warned yesterday against the risk of a “creeping militarization” of U.S. foreign policy, saying the State Department should lead U.S. engagement with other countries, with the military playing a supporting role.

“We cannot kill or capture our way to victory” in the long-term campaign against terrorism, Obama said, arguing that military action should be subordinate to political and economic efforts to undermine extremism.

This is the kind of statement that drive the wingnuts on the right insane.  Obama being soft on terrorists blah blah blah  Why, we’re likely to get a wingnut screed along these lines:

[C]an American politicians ever rid themselves of this unreality-based trope? This belief is part and parcel of the same idiocy that lead the State Department to embrace "spa days" for Muslims to “build bridges” with the Arab world and President Bush to open up our aviation schools to more Saudi students to “improve understanding.”

But here’s the thing.  The quote at the top of his post?  I lied.  Barack Obama didn’t say that.  Here is what the article actually said:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned yesterday against the risk of a “creeping militarization” of U.S. foreign policy, saying the State Department should lead U.S. engagement with other countries, with the military playing a supporting role.

“We cannot kill or capture our way to victory” in the long-term campaign against terrorism, Gates said, arguing that military action should be subordinate to political and economic efforts to undermine extremism.

Looks like one of the Bush boys is off-message.  But, quite decidedly, correct.