To win the war on Terror
First, let me say these our my opinions. You are welcome to question them, disagree and just out and out tell me I am wrong. I do not claim to be an expert, I have no military experience and am having trouble with my own business, so with that said lets look at strategies on how to win at anything.There are two fundamental issues that drive terrorism. 1) People are fustrated, controlled and have a terrible life or they have been brainwashed to believe that all of their problems are related to someone else. 2) Money (in the present situation - Foreign Oil)
So to really win a war, you have to remove the infrastructure that support it.
1) We want to blame Islamic Fundamentalists, but there are terrorists in all walks of life. But lets deal with just the first issue. The palestinians and our (US) blind support of Israel. We have tried to manipulate, bully and in general created a mess in the world by providing foreign aid to a lot of different countries. Since the 1940's alot of this is related to Foreign Oil. Do we so quickly forget the US put certain dictatorships in the Middle East into power - who later became our enemies.
So the answer is harsh but simple. Keep in mind you are trying to win a war and during wartime, you should concentrate on how to win. Not like Bush's recent feable attempt to reduce the price of oil by saying "Please dear most holy Prince, will you bring down the price of oil?" Eliminate all US government sponsored foreign aid and use that money to build up the US infrastructure. If you weaken a country during wartime, others will take the opportunity to attack. If your people become overtaxed and poor, they will no longer support the war.
2) Reduce the US dependency on Foreign Oil. It is not hard for a President to do so.
a) As Commander in Chief he can dictate that the military will switch to Biodiesel. The technology is here, it exists. The US military is the largest user of Diesel as a single group in the world.
b) As President, have the Dept of Agriculture address getting farmers to grow Rape seed (Canola) or other oil producing plants for their region in which Bio-diesel can be produced.
c) As President, have the Dept of Commerce set up a program to encourage bio-diesel plants.
d) As President, have the Dept of Energy set up a real program to encourage Wind Farms and other alternative Energy sources. Follow Germany's lead and require Utility companies to buy the energy back at a higher rate than they Charge.
e) As President, have the Dept of Transportation work with the Army Corps of Engineers and respective Rail companies to set up a true public transportation system using Trains, Trams and Buses. Electrically driven where feasible.
f) And as President, ask for assistance from other countries with the technology and infrastructure for these things to help.
This would be a start, there are other real programs such as making plastic out of corn starch (done in Japan for years)
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Ethanol plants are going into place now as we speak. Hereford Texas feed lots are a prime example. This could be encouraged more.
Trains can move people. Electric trains work throughout the world in transporting people with buses and Trams moving them around when they get somewhere.
Everywhere in the world but the United States. My mother is 76, still drives because there is no public transportation. But she should not be driving, but has no choice. In Europe, Japan, India, Russia, etc, - people her age can get around effectively on the Trams and buses.
Cars are still used, but public transportation is heavily used also. You should ask, why we do not have any domestic policy to win the war on terror and strengthen the infrastructure of the USA.
One of the big benefit to alternative and electric vehicles as they get the power to move heavy and lerger loads......is with this area. A electric delivery van....gets the bread to the store just as well as a disel unit.
We do have some 40 state with buy back programs on electricity. But the law is only to the rate that the power company is selling not a forced rate that promotes the development of alternative energy. Our philoshopy is a kw of energy is a kw of energy. If you ask the power supplier to pay more for his kw.....in the US where the power grids overlap....and they sell energy across them. He will not buy the local high price energy from your alternatice providers....rather he goes to a connecting grid....buys low cost kws if he can. That can shot the entire alternative energy development concept here, in the US. So most state have this compromise where the cost of the buy back is to the rate charged.
Is our infrasctructure going to change in the next 20 years? Yes. Is our transportation system going to change? Yes. How little power a president has to do these kinds of very large scale local program like this might surprise you. I remember a mid 90s plan local to central Florida for mass transit trains. The Federal goverment....was only one....of the State, the county, the city, and firm providing the service...to its development. It came down a single vote at the county level for project approval.....mind you with $250m invested already in study for this....and was defeated by 1 vote. The President had no way to control or make that vote occur positively for mass transit. He can order those agencies to do what you ask, yes. But he cannot get or guarrantee at the local and state level cooperation. Understand?
There is ton of politics here in the US over mass transit. Best that the President be left out of it, during a time of conflict, unless you want him/her to be answering the phone at 3 AM and being asked if someone found there lost book bag from the previeous day bus run.:-)jmo
I am sure you are aware that Stormin Norman believed that Sun Tsu's Art of War is a very valid military article even today. If you weaken a nation through warfare others will attack you and you have lost the war. Right now, all money spent on Foreign Oil ends up being a transfer of wealth, from the United States to investments in Europe, Russia and Asia. The US is becoming weaker while other countries are growing in strength. Please look at who is in Power in Arab Nations, Russia and China. If the US is weakened by our "War on Terror" and the idiotic aspects of "homeland security" - I am referring to BIS legislation which is moving Research and Development out of the US, then its prominence as a major superpower is at an end.
The depreciation of the US dollar has already created a massive overseas investment in the US. Armenians are buying land left and right around my brother-in-law's farm. So guess how the weakening of the US is affecting the average US citizen?
So, the US can continue to follow a "military only" solution. Continue to weaken the American dollar, continue to go into a recession while the rest of the world does not, or we can do something about it. Best regards.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, I am having trouble with my business. Why?
One of my investors ended up not being real and did not have the money to invest. If the US runs out of money then basically the military effort will fall apart because of it.
Think about the recent wall incident between Egypt and Gaza for a moment. Ok? Kepp that in the back of your mind, I going to come back to it at the end here.
Every time we give foriegn food aid....say to Solomia or elsewhere....this
what happens. The NGO goes in with food. They place a storage site and
begin to distribute. The terror groups see what is happening begin either
intradict the shipments of food, steal them or extort them. One of the main reasons we went into Solomia was because a NGO food storage point had been taken over.
Let us return to Gaza now. We see on media that Palestine women and children are throwing themselves at the wall, fences, and gates between
Egypt and Gaza. The world says....It must be horrible in Gaza for them to
have to do that. Reporters go in and the world learns of how they cannot
get water, food, funds from Egypt into Gaza. Everything points at the Isreali that are forcing the Egpytians to honor this agreement on the wall
between them and Palistines. Isreal is made to look the bad guy here...in
the eyes of the world.
The wall comes down. Palestines flood into Egpyt to buy goods, foods, water etc. Also with that wall coming down.....many militants have a chance to bring weapons and funds from Egypt back into Gaza. Only a few weeks later, you have a increase of the rockets from Gaza into Isreal.
I wonder how the rockets might have got into Gaza?
The wall has been down a week. The Hamas government and Egypt have come to an agreement on it. 7 days later Hamas and Egyptians are putting the wall back into place. So at this point stop and ask your self why? Why if this wall was so bad to the Palestine people, would Hamas reset it? Simple answer:
Economic control on the Palestine people by Hamas.
With the wall down they did not have it. With the wall up they did. With the wall up they had economic control of what is going on in Gaza. They could extort the baker on the flour he needs to make bread. With it down, the baker goes to Egypt gets his flour and makes his bread without paying dime one to them. Hamas learned this in the week's time it was down......puts it back up for economic control of thier population.
They smudged Isreal in the world eye with the women pressing for it to come down. They put it back up when it cost them dollars, with it being down. That is how much aid in the middle east get handled, Munichtexan. That is the game that gets played here. It is about economic control, extortion, and making black eyes on the US and Isreal when you can. And it is a sad game that is bringing injury and death to 1000s.jmo