Tanks For The Memories!

Welcome to Tank Graveyard! For nearly ten years, The Soviet-Afghan War was raged in the Afghanistan Desert. The result of the conflict known as the Afghan Civil War showed the Mujahideen Rebels victorious and the Soviets went home to Russia defeated with the sting of their version of Vietnam War is now apart of history. On February 15, 1989, the Soviets left all facilities and machinery in the region after the last troops has withdrawn. Hundreds of tanks left in the sandstorms for over twenty years.

Today, the people of Afghanistan are doing the same thing as the factory workers in Argentina (1), utilizing the waste. The Afghan Army are using the former Soviet base as a training facility for their troops to better prepare them in armored tank warfare. Whatever materials that are not being used in the training exercises are being sold as scrap metal to the Chinese Government.

Locke's theory comes into play for seeing that the Soviet Union who occupied Afghanistan for a long duration, withdrew their forces after losing the war and left all weapons of war behind. They obviously didn't want it so, the Afghan Army claimed it as their own personal property. Once the Army is finish using the materials, they are selling it to China once again proving they are adhering to Locke's principals of not wasting goods since it would spoil from the climate. These actions would be seen as progress but Locke would ponder what if the countries of the west would follow suit.



1) http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=the_zanon_struggle

Living Well: When Wealth-Getting Goes Wrong

The term bailout is a rescue from financial distress. It's funny that a couple years ago, the only ones whom paid attention to that word would be people working on Wall Street and the U.S. Government. Today, the single utterance of that phrase is an automatic beatdown! Do we blame the previous administration for the fallout that the country and the world is suffering? Is there a time limit for President Obama to rectify this mess? The most obvious question is: How did we get to this point? All valid questions but for this entry I will concentrate on the philosopher Aristotle, his views on living well and the dangers of it.

Aristotle's Art of Acquisition states governing the household is the primary concern of the individual. His views includes the most natural way of exchanging is to barter, that it should be limits on all goods to maintain the household plus have economic uses for the items and money should be a subordinate never identical to these beliefs. Of course over time, the desire of living well over just living, consumed the world and it grew into the 21st Century Monster (?) that we see today!

Some would argue the introduction of retail trade is the root of the problem. The deal for the customer who use money to purchase items became a necessary evil to acquiring goods but also gave birth to what Aristotle called a fetishtic desire for money for the seller. For all the good retail for selling products and growing businesses there are a few individuals who feel that is not enough. Greed has taken over the financial landscape with corporation's bottom line is the most important to the executives and shareholders. Why Not? They have the confidence to feel this way since all of them know the Federal Government will bail them out to save the Nation's Economy. President Obama is trying to convince Congress to create a "bailout tax" for all the financial institutions who request one to ensure all the money is returned.(1)

Time will tell if this measure will pass and this will help the economy rebound. Aristotle's ideas on money is still argumentative to a certain degree but the reality is as long business dealings continue this way the world will suffer.

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde



1. http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/14/news/economy/bailout_tax/index.htm

My 1st Post As The Mystery Unfolds...

Even though this blog was created to fulfill my class assignments for Business Ethics, I will maintain plus utilize this form of ideas, observations & commentary through the eyes of deesoul (once this class is done). Stay True!