Do You Think The "War On Terror" is Something Else Entirely?

And I'm not talking about oil... so please don't mention it. What I mean is, President Obama was SO anti-war when he began his presidency, and then once he gets into office, he's all about the war efforts, even dispatching 33,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan last year... It's almost like he got into office and was shown some reality that the public doesn't know about! Do you think is about something else entirely, maybe something that isn't being made known to the American public? I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist... but it's strange, no?