But staying focused on domestic policy will be increasingly difficult as the war dominates the news.
But now, with the recession and the war dominating the nation's attention, many believe that this modest momentum will produce little.
Terrorism and the war in Iraq dominated the election, with domestic issues taking a secondary role.
The reality is that the war now dominates the White House and the president's life.
During the next seven decades struggle for power and the wars between Sweden and Denmark would dominate the union.
The war dominated Ebejer all his life.
Germany, and the wars it started, dominate the list, while the cold war appears only tangentially at Yalta.
As anyone who reads the daily paper knows, wars dominate Africa's political landscape.
Where war once dominated the scenario, we now have peaceful and democratic co-existence.
At the time, the Berlin wall was still standing and the cold war still dominated politics.