links for 2010-07-15

• Affordable Green Energy – Project Syndicate
  Investing in R&D for green technologies would possibly accelerate the efficiency of the now low-efficient green tech we have now – thus lowering the costs.
  (tags: economy green tech solar wind geothermal power oil gas drilling global warming GDP Copenhagen)
• Foreign Policy In Focus | Stalemate at Camp Victory
  A great piece on Afghanistan. "Like the Afghan infantry soldier, villagers still do not have a lasting reason for being anything but fence-sitters in the fight"
  (tags: counterinsurgency afghan afghanistan us obama COIN)