The Decade of the Triple Zeros

Goodbye to “The Triple Zeros” decade of the 2000’s. I grade Foreign Policy a Big 0 because of two senseless and unending wars as well as Al-Caeda, still threatening the U.S., is now scattered from the Philippines to Africa. I give our Economic Policies a Big 0 since we began the decade in the black for the first time in decades, but ended with the Big Recession and the largest budget deficit in history. The third Big 0 goes to our Environmental Policies, or lack thereof. My first two great-grandchildren, born in 2009, very likely will face a world of rising waters, rising temperatures, rising debt and rising violence. My hope is that, by some miracle of human understanding and change, the decade of the 2000 teens may begin a reversal of these patterns of impending disasters.