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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Carolyn who wrote (7806)10/27/2001 9:18:01 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Well Carolyn... there are always certain groups like Unocal which stand to benefit from US overthrowing the Taleban and the oil argument has some minimal validity.. But it's also valid that Afghanistan is so poor that such a source of national income should be welcomed. After all, they are just providing transit rights, and it's not like we're stealing their natural resources and exporting them to our economy.

But you are quite correct. Bin Laden is in Afghanistan, and that's where we have to root him out from.

If he were still in Somalia, someone would be arguing that we were their trying to manipulate oil rights or shipping routes...

That's why arguments like Raymond's must be further analyzed to see if they hold water as being the primary rationale for why US troops are involved.

We can see an example of this in Kuwait. We claimed we were there to preserve international law and prevent tyranny... but no one can argue that, had not the majority of the world's oil flowed from there, we likely would still be engaging in some UN condemnation and economic sanctions, rather than military action.

But Raymond is correct also that certain administrations have bowed to corporate pressure to take political actions in certain countries (United Fruit)

Hawk
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