It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.

Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.