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</div><div>see unintend conseq</div><div>
</div><div><div>2) WICKED PROBLEMS:  an impoverished educational system would be worrisome enough in terms of the job loss/ dislocation problem above, but in some ways the econpmy is the least of our worries.  We now fae wicked problems such as climate change</div><div>
</div><div>A wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. The use of the term "wicked" here has come to denote resistance to resolution, rather than evil.[1] Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems.</div><div>
</div><div>The greatest challange the species has faced is climte change, which is "wicked" for a number of reasons, but mostly because counter-intuitive because tany familar acts we carry on all the time will have a huge effect in the seemingly  distant future; a problem can also be wicked if those who can solbve the problem are incentivized not to [it's hard to convice a man of something when his liviliheed depends on him not undertanding [poor brown ppl will be hurt 1st and worst, though they had least role in creating the problem abnd the lest power to cope with it]</div><div>
</div><div>Upton Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.</div><div>
</div><div>We've understood the basic phyiscs of Greenhouse effect for ___years, and been certain it's having real effects we are causeing for 30 [well-funded propgnda effort], it's the knock-on cascade effects.. Prevented from getting an education or building a business, a young man sets himself on fire in Tunisa, which leads to a popular and peaceful overthow of the governemnt; the Arab Spring sprads to Syria, where a long drought has driven rural people into the capital;</div><div>
</div><div>Between 2006 and 2009, around 1.3 million inhabitants of eastern Syria were affected by agricultural failures. An estimated 800 000 people lost their livelihoods and basic food supports (Solh 2010). During this period, yields of wheat and barley dropped 47% and 67%, respectively" by 2011 as many as 3 million affected, wuth half moving to cities.; in the civil war, water pipleines were targeted abnd battles fought over dams (water and elecgtricity).</div><div>
</div><div>Another 1.5 million refugeees from Iraqi war: dicatator Saddan had managed to prevent sectarian problems, but when senier military officers were deproved of status and income when fired b/c Baathists (virually reuired for any professuonal position) they cteated ISIS. [ironically pretence to invade was that Saddam was in cahoots with Al-Qaeda, when in actually Bin ladin and he despised each other; [even more ironically, we created Bin Laden by giving shoulder-fired surface to air Stinger missles to the Islamic Mujahideen fighters to defeat the deadly Soviet attack helicopters (we wanted them to have their own Viet Nam quamire, but did nopt want to risk WWIII, nor use of blood and treasure to face directly]. [[Al-Qaeda took its name—meaning “database" in Arabic—from the voluminous CIA database of Jihadists]] After our ally Bin Ladin attacked us on 911 (high tech box-cutters, no locks on cabin door] leverage: lacking fighter-bomber jets, just use our; the FBI knew Arab students were taking flight traini9ng, with no interest in how to land, but that info was siloed, no one "connected the dots."</div><div>
</div><div>{{Prior to the American invasion, there was no Al-Qaeda in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Bush destroyed Saddam's secularist government and his viceroy, Paul Bremer, in a monumental act of mismanagement, effectively created the Sunni Army, now named ISIS. Bremer elevated the Shiites to power and banned Saddam's ruling Ba'ath Party laying off some 700,000, mostly Sunni, government and party officials from ministers to school teachers. He then disbanded the 380,000 man army, which was 80 percent Sunni.</div><div>
</div><div>Bremer's actions stripped a million of Iraq's Sunnis of rank, property, wealth and power; leaving a desperate underclass of angry, educated, capable, trained and heavily armed Sunnis with little left to lose. General Petraeus' decision to import dirty war tactics, including torture and death squads, from the CIA's El Salvador conflict in order to shock and awe the Sunni resistance, instead ignited a shockingly bloody spiral of sectarian violence that devolved quickly into escalating atrocities topped finally by the Sunni Army signature head cutting. The Sunni insurgency named itself Al-Qaeda Iraq (AQI).</div><div>
</div><div>Beginning in 2011, our allies funded the invasion by AQI fighters into Syria. In June 2014 having entered Syria, AQI changed its name to ISIS. According to the New Yorker, “ISIS is run by a council of former Iraqi Generals ... many are members of Saddam Hussein's secular Ba'ath Party, who converted to radical Islam in American prisons." The $500 million in U.S. military aid that Obama did send to Syria almost certainly ended up benefiting these militant Jihadists. On Sept. 16, 2015, incredulous senators from the Armed Services Committee listened to U.S. General Lloyd Austin, Commander of the U.S. Central Command, explain that the Pentagon had spent $500 million to train and arm “moderate" insurgents in Syria and had only “four or five reliable moderate fighters" to show instead of the promised 5,000. The remainder apparently deserted or defected to ISIS.</div><div>
</div><div>Tim Clemente told me that the incomprehensible difference between the Iraq and Syria conflicts are the millions of military aged men who are fleeing the battlefield for Europe rather than staying to fight for their communities.}}</div><div>
</div><div>After the fall of Saddam, sectarian violence increased [Shia majority] (Al-Quada in Iraq, a self-declared franchise began using the plentiful ordinance we had sold Saddam to make IED's;  So we pulled troops from Afganistan (where there had been actual A-Qaueda training camps) to fight a bigger and costlier war in Iraq.  (which attracted Jihadis from all ove the region).  When AQ in Iraq invided Sysria, renamed itslef ISIS.</div><div>
</div><div>1953? overthrew Mossadeq because he (threatened to ?) nationalize oil (as a bargaining tactic?)</div><div>
</div><div>CIA (Kermit R) tried twice for coup in Iraq, failed and alienated the reguion.  B/c Iraqi presient slight tilt to USSR, successful coup brought Baathist (sunni small minority) to power, including young Saddam;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[// to Central Am kids unaccompanied at the border, and more recently with baby jails; we exported gangs to Central Am, and the Death Squads we tyrained and supported in 80's were allowed to sell drugs in US, morphed into traffics and melded with gangs?] Blowback, dumb about systems.</span></div></div><div>
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