Penetrating the Smokescreen

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With so many reasons to dig [COUGH] pipeline [/COUGH] over such a wide area in Afghanistan, is it any wonder that so many of our brave servicemen and women have made it their home away from home for more than a decade?

 

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An older article might shed a bit more light on the matter.

A snippet:

[...] When you check the maps above a clearer picture emerges. The bottom map is the proposed pipeline route to move Caspian Sea oil through Turkmenistan into Afghanistan and then finally through Pakistan to ports along the Arabian Sea where U.S. and British tankers would gorge themselves with the black gold.

The whole reason the U.S. is in Afghanistan and Pakistan today is to deny those pipelines from being routed through Russia, China, or Iran.

Then look at the top map where the U.S. Marines are operating inside Afghanistan and causing some controversy within the military. They are building big bases in desolate southwestern Afghanistan and wanting to extend control in that region near the border of Pakistan – all of which are areas that must “be controlled” if pipelines are to be successfully built and maintained.

Considering its most likely progenitors, the terror of 9/11/01 seems an ironic pretext for such an iron-fisted grab for control of another country's natural resources.