Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters

all you guys are partly correct, in that oil is the number one reason.



i had suspicions about the convenient 'discovery' of oil in Afghanistan around the time Obama took office. Just prior to 911, Congress had been about to subpoena Cheney for his secret energy meetings with big oil, which makes me suspect they knew about it then.



after all, the bordering Pakistani province of Baluchistan has a very great amount of oil; there had been plans to lay a pipeline across the province. the people there almost went into full rebellion against the Pakistani government, because they felt they weren't getting a fair share of the profits.



this is a nice little monograph from the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, downloadable as a PDF:



Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan, authored by Dr. Robert J. Wirsing.



http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=853



we all need to remember that, upon our initial invasion of Iraq in 2003, troops were ordered to guard refineries and pipelines.



not the government buildings and their documents, which could have proved the case for crimes against humanity, WMD programs, and more.



not the weapons caches, which had been largely located prior to the invasion by civilian groups.



not the museums and archaeological sites, documenting 7000 years of history, in the area where civilization first rose.



. . .and we all know how THAT turned out. . .



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