Ah.. so this "war on terror" is all just about a pipeline across Afghanistan, carrying oil and NG to PAKISTAN AND INDIA?
For all of that, the US created Al Qaida and the Taliban to obstruct such an endeavor? That makes a hell of a lot of sense..
Create a bunch of fanatical Jihadists in order to thwart your efforts at building a pipeline.
And btw, UNOCAL was not the only player in that pipeline effort:
UNOCAL was not the only party positioning themselves to tap into oil and gas reserves in central Asia. UNOCAL was primary member of a multinational consortium called CentGas (Central Asia Gas) along with Delta Oil Company Limited (Saudi Arabia), the Government of Turkmenistan, Indonesia Petroleum, LTD. (INPEX) (Japan), ITOCHU Oil Exploration Co., Ltd. (Japan), Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (Korea), the Crescent Group (Pakistan) and RAO Gazprom (Russia).
lewrockwell.com
So it's NOT just a US company that was seeking to build that pipeline.
And if we had the kind of control over Al Qaida and the Taliban that you have asserted, it would have made more sense that we would have just TOLD THEM "how it was going to be", rather than losing over 10 years of potential profit that would have resulted from actually building that pipeline.
You can't have it both ways.. We either created AQ and the Taliban, or we were strong-arming them to permit those companies to build a pipeline.
And btw, what's wrong with building a pipeline, or assisting them in exploiting the natural resources in Afghanistan?
Do you want to relegate the Afghan people to utter poverty and growing opium, or do you want them to have a functional economy?
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