Political Disillusionment

posted by Admin on Jun 18

By Amit Kheterpal

 Oil they say is the major driver of the world and that is no doubt about the veracity of that statement. Oil is one resource which has truly revolutionized the world and it has been the object of wars even.

Oil is a finite resource of energy and we cannot say that it will be there forever. Oil is formed in the earth’s bowels and it takes millions of years for the oil to be in a stage where it can be extracted.

The major oil exporting countries have become rich because of oil found in their estates. They usually keep the supply less than the demand so that the prices are high. But that is their motive. The major thing to worry is not the costly but the fact that the oil will get depleted very fast and it is not replenished at the speed at which it is being depleted.

The major source of consumption of oil is the automobiles and if you see the automobiles on the road in the past few years the number have grown tremendously. The availability of finance to own the automobiles have led to mushrooming growth in the automobile sector but has also led to major consumption of petroleum and its derivatives.

Of late however experts have been warning about the over dependence of oil as well as the depletion of major reserves of oil. This has instigated major governments all over the world to initiate developmental programs for alternative sources of energy.

Automobile companies all over the world have been putting money in to the research so that they can have cars which can run on electricity or with hydrogen fuel cells. This is easier said than done. The alternative fuel acres which have come into the market are very expensive and yet to become a mass medium of transport.

Power generation has also found success in wind farms generating power as well as nuclear power plants.

Some governments and city councils have been more proactive than the others and they have initiated a green day or a no car to work day. At least for one day the consumption of petrol will come down. A big thing if you estimate the number of cars and the amount of gas they consume.

Hopefully all these steps will help us prevent the day which we all dread which is that there will be no oil to drill.

The author has a blog for diamond drill bit and also writes about special things in her life

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posted by Admin on Jun 2

By Musa Aykac

 Twenty years ago, the last Russian army troops departed from Afghanistan after a fatal war that went on for nine years, seven weeks and three days. Without the relegation of armed forces and or a political miracle, the U.S. government will remain in Afghanistan for longer than the Russians did, substantially longer.

Recently the United States began to plan a reinforcement of military personel in Afghanistan. They have decided to employ an additional thirty thousand soldiers over the span of the next year. By that time, the U.S.A’s presence will have equaled the length of the Russians stay and will eventually surpass it come the end of 2010. If the United States’ history is any guide, political campaigning in 2012 will categorize the war as Barack Obama’s war. He has in fact switched the emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan. Obama pledged to pull troops out of Iraq and deploy them into Afghanistan.

Obama’s critics will complain about the Afghan war’s cost - more or less seventy billion dollars a year- and call for an answer in terms of what it has or hasn’t accomplished and when it will finish.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates forecasts “a long and hard fight.” By an ironic twist of history, Gates was instrumental in getting Russian military personnel out of Afghanistan while he was deputy director of the CIA. At present, Gates is involved with having more American army in Afghanistan, and it is not hard to imagine that sooner or later the U.S.A. will confront the same excruciating decisions the Russians confronted

RETALIATION TO MASS MURDER

By early January, the United States death toll in Afghanistan stood at 630 and Afghan casualties, both armed forces and civilian, are a fraction of those compared to the Russian war. The Russian and American wars in Afghanistan differ immensely in scale and intent. The Russians desired to shore up a Marxist government and at the peak of its involvement, had an 115,000-strong military force in the state. More than 600,000 of its soldiers were serviced there and the encroachment attracted international disapprobation, complete with a (partial) Western boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Russia.

In contrast, the United States intrusion of Afghanistan was in revenge to the carnage of 3,000 people in New York’s twin towers and at the Pentagon on 9/11, 2001. That lash out was executed by extremities of al-Qaeda, which had been given backup and secure haven by the Taliban authorities of Afghanistan.

Another perplexing element: Afghans do not like when foreigners intervene in their matter. The British and later the Russians, found this out at great cost. In his memoir, Gates heralds the exit of the Russians as a cracking triumph and contributes: “Afghanistan was at last free of the alien encroacher.”

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