It is only a few days we will go into a new decade, Time magazine called the last decade was from hell. The first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade. Today I went for the hair cut and talked to my favorite hair cutter Bob to have his opinion about time magazine about 10 years of hell. He said it is not in hell but very closed with Sept 11. We both agree on that 1980-2000 and the best was 1990-2000 where I came to work in the US under Clinton. So the story is not only how I feel but generally to everyone. I thought Y2K will be terrible but it went without a problem. Here all some pictures I kept since 2000.
As I recall from my perspective, it is the worst years of 2000's we have seen Sep 11, 2 wars: Iraq and Afghanistan. 2 recessions 2002 and 2008(a financial almost wipe out), Asian tsunami of 2004 killed more than 200,000 people...and more. A decade of broken dream or a lost decade, on some degree that I agree. Lost love and found love for me it was bad for me as well. It is common sense when the world we live is not good we will be effected.
To me, the most uncertainly and worrisome the conflict of ideology between the West's ongoing struggle against radical Islam and our recent near-death economic experience by Sep 11 — trends that have largely skirted much of the developing world — it's no wonder we feel as if we've been through a 10-year gauntlet. This conflict is depending so much on Obama's administration. There is fine line to do and not to do in the smart way is so important at least the way I am thinking. It seems China and Brazil have had a pretty good decade economically. On the contrary the genocide in Uganda, the nightmare for Africa. Northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today, says a former United Nations Under-Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflicts. So we still are the lucky person no matter what happen unless you live in Uganda. Think about it we still are the fortune.
In large part, we have ourselves to blame. If you look at the underlying causes of some of the most troubling developments of the decade, you can see some striking common denominators. The raft of financial problems, our war with radical Islam, the collapse of GM and much of our domestic auto industry and even the devastation brought about by Katrina all came about at least in part or were greatly exacerbated by:
• Neglect. Our inward-looking culture didn't heed the warning signs from around the world — and from within our own country — that Islamic terrorism was heading for our shores.
• Greed. Our absolute faith in the markets, fed by Wall Street, combined with the declawing of our regulators to undermine our financial system.
I can not wait to fly away on Valentine's day of 2010 of new decade just to see you and I look forward to that day so much...
