Recent comments by Waleed Addas

• The Trouble Within Islam

  Extremists are everywhere but what exacerbated the situation is your invasion of Iraq, which made the Gini come out and ushered in the current regional and also world instability.

• The Iraq War Ten Years Later

  Those who were illuded and those who illuded others for going to war in Iraq are still paying the heaviest of prices. And its not over yet: chapter1 the fuel crisis, chapter2 the food crisis , chapter3 the financial crisis and chapter4 the future (western) crises...and on and on and on...
  Will President G. W. Bush ever get a peaceful night of sleep?!
  
  Without any doubt, justice is on its way for all the innocent peoples of Iraq in the Here (Now) and also in the Hereafter (the Next life) and Allah is Swift in Account.
  
  

• Why Did Economists Not Foresee the Crisis?

  I agree that economics (and many other disciplines for that matter) has become too compartmentalized. The real problem facing the dismal science today is its lack of an anchor to a universal worldview or vision that looks at the human condition from a multi-disciplinary re-scoped approach--not only "money matters" but more also that 'morality matters' as well.
  
  As such, economics as it stands today (if it has any more legs to stand on!) will continue to face such crisis unless and until it re-thinks its basic premises and postulates on the nature and significance of the 'economic problem' and the purpose in life of the so-called "economic man".
  
  The whole is always greater than the sums of its parts!

• America the Unequal

  One should not worry too much on the state of the economy or the vicious conditions of the circular flow of income. Life is much bigger than the economy.
  
  The problem is that people in the modern era have been made to think that the economy is all that matters in life and as such this has shaped our social status and relations.
  
  I believe we are here for a much higher ideal than "making money". To know and be thankful is the ultimate end.
  
  The world is so complex, it is indeed beyond our own making or even our control. But we have been so 'good' in corrupting it!
  
  Laissez-faire is fair when governments are bad and is foul when government are fair!
  
  Food for thought!

• A Man Without a Plan

  For any successful progress - be it for nations, governments companies, individuals, there are a number of P's that must be followed. They apply to all walks of life and I think Obama or any other may like to consider making use of them:
  
  Precepts: the do's and don'ts (the value system, principles and the constitution)
  
  Perception: to have a vision that stems out from the above precepts
  
  Plans/Programs: to develop strategic plans and programs that come out from the above Vision
  
  Policies: to have them aligned with the above precepts
  
  Processe: delegate and hold accountable for results
  
  Products: to make a difference in peoples lives
  
  Price: without corrupting the resources or the climate
  
  Performance: If you cannot measure it then you cannot manage it!
  
  Perseverance: in all the above as one can never fool himself/herself.
  
  Food for thought!