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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Needed Complex Minds - Mark Sanborn
A friend of mine commented on a USA Today commentary published by a Harvard professor. They decried the fact that our leaders seem to lack the ability to address the complexity inherent in today's volatile world. Good points but rather than solely blame our leaders, I commented that maybe we, as voters, are equally as responsible. Read his post and my comments.
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
The Vietnamization of Iraq
The cost of the Iraq war soared to a record $10 billion/month at the end of last year not to mention the hundreds of US military lives lost, interrupted and maimed and let's not forget the tens of thousands of Iraqis also counted among the casualties. And the latter have to endure the special hell of their cities, country and society ripped apart.
Sadaam was a bad guy and he was responsible for the deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands of his own people. I'm glad he's gone but we've replaced one tyrant with another and just because we exert our tyranny in the name of freedom and democracy doesn't justify the expense in dollars, lives and suffering we've borne and imposed. And it doesn't by any stretch of the imagination justify our continuing in a cause that we, as in Vietnam, as in Korea, will never win.
We have become not liberators but conquerors imposing our will on the weak. Uncle Sam now serves not only as the recruiting poster for our side but for the side of terrorists and extremists the world over. It's time to stop. It's time to leave. It's time to take our $10 billion a month and invest it in finding alternatives to the oil that keeps us embroiled in the most antagonistic, US-reviling parts of the world.
At the end of the day, I've come to believe that it's the free flow of oil not ideas not democracy that motivates our adventures. There are plenty of despots large and small, evil and eviler, at loose in the world; wreaking havoc on their populations. Most we ignore, like Darfur, like Somalia. Why? No strategic interest. Nothing we want. Nothing important enough for us to sacrifice our own in order to stop the killing and 'spread democracy'.
10 billion dollars a month would fund a lot of research into creating clean and renewable energy from the wind, sun, hydrogen and, yes, even the atom. Who knows, maybe one of the brave boys (or girls) we spare by not sending them to fruitless wars will be responsible for the breakthrough that spares us, once and for all, from needless, profit driven conflict.
Ten billion dollars a month would also go a long way to solving the long term causes of poverty, disease, hunger, ignorance. The conditions that give rise to tyranny in the first place.
What do you think?
tom.gray@gemsolv.com
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Sadaam was a bad guy and he was responsible for the deaths of tens if not hundreds of thousands of his own people. I'm glad he's gone but we've replaced one tyrant with another and just because we exert our tyranny in the name of freedom and democracy doesn't justify the expense in dollars, lives and suffering we've borne and imposed. And it doesn't by any stretch of the imagination justify our continuing in a cause that we, as in Vietnam, as in Korea, will never win.
We have become not liberators but conquerors imposing our will on the weak. Uncle Sam now serves not only as the recruiting poster for our side but for the side of terrorists and extremists the world over. It's time to stop. It's time to leave. It's time to take our $10 billion a month and invest it in finding alternatives to the oil that keeps us embroiled in the most antagonistic, US-reviling parts of the world.
At the end of the day, I've come to believe that it's the free flow of oil not ideas not democracy that motivates our adventures. There are plenty of despots large and small, evil and eviler, at loose in the world; wreaking havoc on their populations. Most we ignore, like Darfur, like Somalia. Why? No strategic interest. Nothing we want. Nothing important enough for us to sacrifice our own in order to stop the killing and 'spread democracy'.
10 billion dollars a month would fund a lot of research into creating clean and renewable energy from the wind, sun, hydrogen and, yes, even the atom. Who knows, maybe one of the brave boys (or girls) we spare by not sending them to fruitless wars will be responsible for the breakthrough that spares us, once and for all, from needless, profit driven conflict.
Ten billion dollars a month would also go a long way to solving the long term causes of poverty, disease, hunger, ignorance. The conditions that give rise to tyranny in the first place.
What do you think?
tom.gray@gemsolv.com
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Who is This Guy?
Kind of an appropriate picture for an opinion blog, eh?
It's not me although I resemble him in someways. As true a character as there ever was. Black Sheep, Vaudevillian, WWI Doughboy, Itinerant Preacher (the picture's source), Ladies Man, Serial Marrier and my Grandfather Jesse Alison Gray.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Go To My New Blog Page for My Latest Posts on Internet Marketing
For My Latest Posts Go to http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress
I switched to WordPress a few weeks ago and transferred all of my past posts to my new blogging platform. It's great & I highly recommend it. They have both a server based version that you load to your own web site (your or your ISP's server) or a hosted solution (similar to Blogger.com) that you post to. I started with the latter to see if I'd like it and switched to the former when I found that I did.
Thanks for reading...
tom.gray@gemsolv.com
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I switched to WordPress a few weeks ago and transferred all of my past posts to my new blogging platform. It's great & I highly recommend it. They have both a server based version that you load to your own web site (your or your ISP's server) or a hosted solution (similar to Blogger.com) that you post to. I started with the latter to see if I'd like it and switched to the former when I found that I did.
Thanks for reading...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Shiny New Toys
Well, I'm getting closer to shutting down this form of my blog as yesterday I installed WordPress to my site and transferred the content from this blog to that. From now on all new content will be posted there. Go to http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress for my latest posts including what happens when your SEO runs afoul of Google ...
Blogger has been a great tool for getting started with blogging but it lacks the powerful features of a WordPress or TypePad which is why I switched. I chose WordPress because it is well regarded, open source and free. Plus it has a great community of users built up around it who offer support and guidance for the product. You can't beat that combo.
Thanks for reading and see you in my new digs...
tom.gray@gemsolv.com
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Blogger has been a great tool for getting started with blogging but it lacks the powerful features of a WordPress or TypePad which is why I switched. I chose WordPress because it is well regarded, open source and free. Plus it has a great community of users built up around it who offer support and guidance for the product. You can't beat that combo.
Thanks for reading and see you in my new digs...
tom.gray@gemsolv.com
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