The lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to John Nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. Ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people whos entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than socalled extremist islam. He added its obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current Military Involvement requires better political ties with afghanistans neighbors. Look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and America Needs supply roots. The three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. And we have bad relations with all three. Rubens chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely
dependent upon involvement from india, pakistan and russia and iran. So washington cannot keep fa
the energy produce that drove the great west cities into modernity. now a fascinating new york times story reveals a new plan for the dam that could be just as revolutionary. engineers with the los angeles department of water and power want to turn it into what the times called a giant battery. in other words, a place not just to generate but to store renewable energy. here s how it would work. they built a pump station as far as 20 miles downstream from the dam powered by the solar and wind farms that pepper the american west. that pump would drive water upstream to lake meade to the dam s massive reservoir where it would turn into energy again when needed. this is what s known as pump storage and it is an impressive fete offal chemny, spinning solar and wind into hydroelectric power and solves a very real problem. we re clearly in the midst of a renewable energy revolution.