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As someone else said, we should always protect the opinions of the lunatic fringe. There is a one percent chance they might be right.
The attack on Afghanistan is not about Sept 11
Of course not. It was about ___________ [fill in blank].
And I don't suppose the "planned attack on Afghanistan", presuming, of course, that guy was telling the BBC the truth, had nothing to do with the Al Qaida attack on the embassies and USS Cole and the fact that Taliban were harbouring Al Qaida. No, no, of course it wasn't. How could it have been? It just had to have been about something else. Anything else at all, but not those things! Gosh, no! How could I ever have thought otherwise. Oh,silly little me! I'm ever so glad you, Noam Chomsky, and Osama bin Laden, Linden Larouche, Pat Buchannan, and Pinnochio, are all here to straighten me out.
Every military in the world has guys beavering away planning attacks on, and defences of, everything. It's their job.
The question you didn't ask is, why did a US official tell the story to a Pakistanni diplomat? Could it have had anything to do with the Pakistanni ISI running the Taliban? Naw, that couldn't be it, even though that's what the Paki newspapers have been saying for months.
The Rabid Right has a commie under every bed and the Loopy Left dream of fascists under theirs.
The RR can never say anything critical about their country and the LL can't ever give their country credit for honest motives.
Of course Unocal and the rest want to build pipelines, even there. They're in the oil bidness.
Actually, even the Afghans would like a "new, friendly government" in Afghanistan.
A pipeline isn't a bad thing, it won't screw up their economic development too badly. Beats having oil.
Isn't this what's called a convergence of interests?
Robert Fisk is what the old style Communists called a convenient fool and such fools were the first ones they threw off the top floor or sent to Siberia. He is the islamists' convenient fool. Fisk wouldn't know the truth if it either bit his arse or whacked him on the head. If he ever reported truth, it was an accident He doesn't report: he editorializes under the guise of reporting.
Ray, imputing every foreign policy decision to a financial motivation (see your post) betrays your materialism and the socialist/communist lens through which you view everything.. Like Noam Chomsky, or the islamists, or Pat Buchannan, you are a very intelligent person enthralled by a Perfectly Stupid Idea. In foreign policy realm if you find your analysis doesn't yield a plethora of motives (falsifiability) you have been ensorcelled.
The oil is not everything; not even for Dubbya and Cheney. |
