This is just an opinion of a person that has never been in the military and has no inside information, so it is anything but an expert opinion. It seems pretty clear that if we really, really, really wanted to win the war in Afghanistan, we might be able to pull it off, but what [...]
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Is the War in Afghanistan Winnable?
Posted in foreign policy, politics, tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, Military, Pakistan, War on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is the World on the Brink?
Posted in energy, financing, foreign policy, public policy, renewable energy, tagged depression, economic meltdown, energy, famine, financial crisis, global warming, recession, renewable energy on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is it just me or does anyone else think that the world is doomed?
I’ve been around through several recessions, lived through a period where the world worried about imminent nuclear holocaust; but what the world faces today seems far more dangerous and possibly unsolvable. Of course we still face the threat from nuclear weapons with [...]