If you want to save the world, you need to have a great idea, and the market will reward you. Efficiency has historically been a product of innovation, not conservation.

You must remove this old post immediately as it has been proven that Petition 2493 is a complete hoax. A retraction on your blog will not be sufficient. I am still getting this hoax emailed to me on a regular basis and a writer above who posted here on April 3 states she is still confused about this issue. Please delete this false information from your blog as soon as possible.

I look at time, I also look at what transpired since the 1980’s.

If you took some time to research from then, it would probably give a better understanding of today.

My guess would be to start with the documentary or articles of Charlie Wilson’s war, even though it was made into a movie and movie’s have a tendency to be dramatize, but what the movie was based on is true.

Back in the 80’s the Afgans were fighting the Soviets. With our (US) help they defeated the Soviets.

But in the end, we didn’t stay to help. There was very little humanitarian aid, and the government was non-exsitant.

Reagan felt that it would be draining for the economy if we had stayed. To some degree he encouraged the Taliban to be the government. Which started the ball rolling for what is today and what happen on Sept. 11.

Obama I think paid little attention, considering he was in his twenties, I know because I am the same age as him today and I didn’t pay to much attention to it myself. My son who was born in 1980 was just a child back then. I would imagine that most Obama supporters are around his age. So they wouldn’t know to much about what happen back then. Unless of course they paid attention to history class or government back in high school. I don’t blame them, both classes would be pretty boring.

What happened on Sept. 11 was very devasting, it effected us all. We all were out for retaliation, and to some degree it didn’t matter who it was. To go into Afganistan was the right thing to do.

If things were done right for Iraq we wouldn’t be were we are at today. If Pres. Bush just let the inspectors do their job, we wouldn’t be stuck in there. AQ was not in Iraq when the inspectors went in. It wasn’t untill we invaded that they came. But now that we are there we have to do what is right. Other wise we would only be repeating history.

But on the other hand the Iraqi Gov. has to start taking the lead as well.

The ‘Eye off the ball’ comment is not accurate. AQ is stronger not because of a deficiency in our troops actions. In fact, our troops have been remarkable under terrible conditions. What really happened is we allowed Afghanistan and Iraq to be run by ineffectual, partisan, corrupt politicians. These leaders can’t drive the nation towards the unified fronts they need to combat terrorism themselves. The solution to this is the same thing we did in Japan and Germany: Have a heavy hand in setting up proxy governments who WE HAND PICK AND TELL WHAT TO DO. Then we slowly release our hand in running their gov’t as the extremists are driven from the lands.