There was no oil pipeline to be built. (...) Do you have any evidence showing that Unocal has indicated renewed interest in the project?
As much evidence as any of us has on affairs of politics and global business - Afghanistan's Minister for Mines and Industries telling Reuters that they will build "a $2bn pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India" and that Unocal is "the lead company among those that would build the pipeline".
news.bbc.co.uk
This is BBC quoting Reuters - not exactly an Afghan blogger mouthing off. So I guess I can live with this "evidence" and do not really have to take a month off work to go seeking for additional "evidence" in the mountains of Afghanistan.
You seem to be confused
Really? Please consider the possibility that perhaps your perspective is twisted, if I indeed look "confused" from where you sit.
He [Hamid Karzai] was elected by a Loya Jirga convened under U. N. auspices
Of course. It is just a wee bit curious that they elected not a hero of the people or something but a guy who is NOT a mujahiddin, did not participate in the "jihad" against the Soviets (1979-89). He supported the Taliban at some point, hoping they would clean Afghanistan of the petty war lords and turn the country over to the ex-King Zaher Shah. He studied in the US, then was a consultant to US oil company Unocal for the construction of a pipeline in Afghanistan, for which he even negotiated with the Taliban.
lemonde.fr
(If you can't read French, there is always Google language tools/Translation)
I realize that he was elected by Afghan representatives. What I am saying is that he was the nominated and supported by the US. Afghans chose him for that.
That, incidentally, is what we call a "puppet government".
That's OK, though. It is not a major sin in my book. I am only bringing up in the topic of what is going to happen in Iraq after its imminent (and unilateral, it seems) invasion - a puppet government of western educated, America-friendly Iraqis who will again (of course) be elected in one way or another, who will then go about passing one directive after the other than will benefit US oil companies.
All this is my opinion, of course. You might have another view of what the near future will bring. We will just have to wait and see. |
