Afghanistan sits in a region rich in natural gas, with two competing international pipelines and one of the two includes Iran, Pakistan and India. It's also in the region that provided Russia with its first source of uranium for its first nuclear bomb. Yet all discussion on our involvement in Afghanistan is centered on "terrorism". For pity's sake, even Seymour Hirsch sits yappin' about counter-terrorism on Maddow's show. Are we supposed to be utter fools? ARE we utter fools? How are we so clear on the plain and simple fact that Iraq is about oil, Iran is about oil - but Afghanistan is about terrorism? with a mere 100 Al Qaeda and a bunch of fundamentalist tribal leaders trying to send women back to the Stone Age (complete with stonings, whippings and beheadings)? If homegrown movements to overthrow a corrupt puppet government and oppress women is enough to launch our forces on land, in the air and the sea, we'd have a permanent mandatory military service - The Draft - for every American and immigrant, and a quarter million troops in almost every country.
So, let me just post link after link after link, since we keep playing the broken record we were given (or corrupted disk, if that suits for our oh-so-modern era).
