I guess it's just me, Edgar, but as many of these type of threads, nobody ever agrees to anything, and inevitable, things get nasty and out of control.
I shall quietly bow out and let the experts debate this.
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Merry Andrew
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Sun 4 Oct, 2009 05:02 pm
Hey, guys. Have some of these nice peanut butter cookies I just baked.
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JTT
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Sun 4 Oct, 2009 05:55 pm
@roger,
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Well, yeah. Everybody knows afghanistan is a really big market for US oil companies.
Jesus, Roger, you can read, can't you?
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It is a war of naked imperialism, undertaken for the geopolitical control of the immense hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Basin: Afghanistan, lying directly between those resources and the world’s richest markets, uniquely offers pipeline routes of incalculable value.
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FACT #10: U.S. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SPENT NEARLY FOUR YEARS ASSESSING AFGHANISTAN'S OIL AND GAS RESERVES AND FOUND MORE THAN EXPECTED IN 2006
"Two geological basins in northern Afghanistan hold 18 times the oil and triple the natural gas resources previously thought, scientists said Tuesday as part of a U.S. assessment aimed at enticing energy development in the war-torn country. Nearly 1.6 billion barrels of oil, mostly in the Afghan-Tajik Basin, and about 15.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, mainly in the Amu Darya Basin, could be tapped, said the U.S. Geological Survey and Afghanistan's Ministry of Mines and Industry. ... The $2-million US assessment, paid for by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, was nearly four years in the making, said Daniel Stein, the agency's regional director for Europe and Eurasia. The total area assessed was only about one-sixth of the two basins' 518,000 square kilometres that lie within Afghanistan."
-- Associated Press, March 14, 2006
Why yes, as a matter of fact, I can. Now, look at what you wrote regarding US oil companys needing access to markets. Again, is Afghanistan a really big market for oil companies to need access so badly? They have lots of cars and interstates on which to drive? Are you aware of the difference between markets and sources, or are you just having problems writing?
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i could buy afghanistan as a solo war, it should have started there and ended there
Why would you be able to buy into a series of lies, Dj? Why would you think an illegal invasion of a sovereign nation is justified just to allow a US oil company access to markets that they had been denied?
Strange equality, isn't it, that we have lost more troops in Bush's wars than the civilians who died on 9/11? That doesn't include the terrible wounds suffered by our troops, whose lives and their families will never be the same. But all is not lost because the war contractors have made millions.
If we armed the Afghganistan Pashtun War Lords and gave them the money to pay their men, they would fight to defeat the Talaban. We could provide special Ops and intelligence and air cover and drones to help them. We wouldn't have the cost of shipping our armaments back to America. They could rid themselves of the corrupt Karzi government and protect their people and rebuild their country.
We might even be able to restore the American Middle Classes. What an outrageous idea!
You simply have no business there or anywhere else on the globe, BBB, where the intent is to simply line the pockets of American corporations.
Wouldn't it be nice if the USA actually followed its propaganda line and did something for another country without expecting to be financially rewarded. What an outrageous idea!
