Mission impossible in the Afghan highlands

The US is supposedly going to train the Afghan army. Many obstacles are in the way.

The Afghan army is primarily Tajiks and other Northern Alliance tribes. We supported the NA in overthrowing the Taliban--(Taliban are mainly Pushton.) The Warlords from the NA now run the corrupt Karzai government--Karzai being merely a puppet of them and the US.

Pushtuns are the largest grouping in Afghanistan--43 % of population. They have been marginalized as a result of the US occupation. This is what the fighting is all about. Pashtuns need a piece of the action. Until then, chaos.

Then there is the question of the pipeline!

TAPI--the Afghanistan gas pipeline, That's why we're there. And yet it's never mentioned.

(Google Afghanistan Pipeline --615,000 hits!)

Why are we in Afghanistan ? Or, is there a pony to be found in the dung at the Augean stables?

The usual reasons given (this is the dung part):
1. They'll get us here if we don't get them there.
2. 9/11
3. support democracy, women's rights.
4. \"they tried to kill my father..” whoops, that was George Bush on why he invaded Iraq.
OK, let's look into the top 4 reasons…

“They" can get us from anywhere in the world. However, the 9/11'ers prepared in Dresden and the US. Do we need to invade and occupy many countries before we begin to feel secure? (Let's face it, many Americans will never feel entirely secure: gated communities, yachts, etc. and assorted high living for some has given our rich ruling class the jitters—for them and others, it’s terror on all the channels, 24/7.

And then there's 9/11: They (the Muslims, the Osama-ites, the terrorists, the Saddamists) blew up the WTC and we need to wreck revenge. Forever? Everywhere?

Women's rights, democracy. They say, women's rights; I say, (and here’s the pony!) oil and gas. They say democracy, ; I say world rule. (our imperialists are always cloaking their aims in high-falutin terms!)

And then there’s “They tried to kill my father...”This is George Bush, I and II rubbish.

Let's cut to the chase... we're there because of the energy supplies that are there and the pipelines that bring these goodies to the USA.


"President Obama (as did George Bush,) says 9/11, I say, oil and gas.”