| Thom's blog Bombing into the Stone Age? You need to know this about Afghanistan. The old joke used to be that we couldn't bomb the country into the stone age, because most of it is already there. It's one of the poorest countries in the world, only about a quarter of Afghans can read or write, and there's no national radio or TV infrastructure - large parts of the country don't even have electricity. So when 9/11 happened here, nobody told the Afghans. According to a new report on the Afghan population, 92% of Afghans today don't know what 9/11 was. They have no idea why we're there, and 40% of Afghan adults think we're occupying their country simply to destroy Islam. This, after nearly 10 years of occupying the country. Still - military commanders and President Obama aren't getting the message, as it looks like US engagement in the country will continue beyond 2014. How are we supposed to be successful when most Afghans don't know why we're there? On top of that - how are we supposed to change hearts and minds - when the same prisoner abuses, illegal rendition practices, and unlawful drone strikes are rubber-stamped instead of investigated by an Obama administration. It's time to go.
-Thom
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We need to get off our addiction to oil and switch to other, renewable fuels for transport. If we add some good scientific innovation in developing a mix of low-carbon energy resources (biomass, geothermal, wind, tidal power, etc.), and can figure out a way to strip the carbon dioxide out of our power plant smokestacks and turn it into a solid (calcium carbonate - which you can buy at the store under the brand name "Tums" - is a good candidate), it's not inconceivable that by 2050 we could cut our CO2 emissions by over 80 percent. And perhaps even decades sooner, if we begin now. Plus we could strip oil of its strategic value and make our nation independent of Middle Eastern dictatorships.
So today we face a twofold crisis. The planet is getting warmer and it appears that our reliance on carbon-based fossil fuels is at the core of it. And the United States itself is more vulnerable to being held hostage by our reliance on imported fuel than we were in the early 1970s when the Arab oil embargo, triggered by our support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, nearly brought us to our knees.
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