Americans are finally waking up. Afghanistan, most people finally understand, is not "the good war" but the stupid one. We can't win. Even worse, there's nothing to win. The historical parallels aren't perfect - they never are - but it's hard not to think of the cost of propping up the corrupt Diem regime and its successors in South Vietnam when you see [Hamid Karzai] prancing around in Kabul, never an arm's length away from U.S. Special Forces commandos. You see, Karzai's own troops can't be trusted not to kill him. Looking at Karzai's resume, it's hard to imagine what George W. Bush and his "pet Afghan" Zalmay Khalilzad were thinking when they appointed Karzai as the U.S. puppet "interim president" of occupied Afghanistan in late 2001. Granted, all three were oilmen - Karzai and Khali...
... Unocal, which tried to build an oil-gas pipeline across Afghanistan in the '90s. But Karzai lacked ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil futures jumped to a new record of $97 per barrel Tuesday after bombings in Afghanistan and an attack on a Yemeni oil pipeline compounded the supply concerns that have driven crude prices higher in recent weeks. Those concerns were further fed by a government prediction on Tuesday that domestic oil inventories will fall further this year while consumption rises.
Following an offensive, which included NATO air strikes, launched by Afghan and international forces over four days, 29 Taliban militants were confirmed dead in Baghlan province. [Al-Arabiya, 6/14] June 23: US President Barack Obama dismissed commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal after he made critical comments about senior administration officials that appeared in a profile in Rolling Stone magazine. Tribesmen in eastern Yemen blew up an oil pipeline that linked the Ma'arib province to the Red Sea coast in retaliation for an army raid on the houses of several tribesmen in the area who were believed to be sheltering al-Qa'ida militants.
...Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. PO Box 196660, MS 542 Anchorage, AK 99... donated items to wounded soldiers in Afghanistan, green beans to the Food Bank of Alaska, and gifts...
In a recent Republican debate, GOP White House hopefuls touched upon President Obama's failure to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. In my opinion, if Mr. Obama is re-elected, Iran will get nuclear weapons. Why? Mr. Obama refuses to stand up to the ayatollahs; is retreating in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya; and is abandoning our allies in the region to Iran. As Mr. Obama withdraws for personal political reasons, our allies are being forced to come to terms with the ayatollahs who dominate Iran. Mr. Obama is sacrificing our country's interests overseas for his re-election priorities, just as he is sacrificing the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project for the same end. He does this, in both cases, against the best interests of the American people and our country.
... the route of a planned strategic oil pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. . My observation on...
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... nation has wealth? Tell us about the pipeline you are building through Afghanistan to sell oil i...
Scrambling a fighter jet from Qatar or the UAE to Iran, for example, only takes several minutes. [...] the United States will continue to assist Gulf countries in maintaining land-based missile defense systems and other coastal defenses in case of an Iranian or terrorist attack.55 The reduced USN presence would also offer fewer opportunities for unnecessary escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran on the high seas if Iran were to send another swarm of armed patrol boats to harass the USN, as it did in 2008.
... to help fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan even though they are primarily land-based wars. As... routes are restricted to the East-West Pipeline traversing Saudi Arabia to the port of Yanbu, and ...
You may have never ttiought you'd see "God Bless America" and "God bless [Osama] bin Laden" in the same sentence, but there is a poetic justice here. Back when the Afghans fought the Soviets, America propped up the mujahedeen with missiles and Toyotas, but it was the Afghans who were fighting, dying, being maimed and, ultimately, winning our Cold War for us. And afterward, they felt we abandoned them to mend their war-torn country alone. So here is , at least for my friend: Afghans died to rid us of the Soviet threat, what of it if Americans died to rid them of the Taliban one? For Afghans, the answer is this: We are losing because we want to lose. Or rather, we don't really want to win. If we succeed in driving the Taliban into inconsequence-so goes the logic-w...
... tribes and make way for the UNICOL oil pipeline. (This is not entirely true, but read Steve Coll's...
There is a bumper sticker that often makes me smile. It reads, "When Jesus said 'Love Thy Enemies' I think he meant not to kill them. Yet even as Christians celebrated Jesus' birth last December in Afghanistan, U.S. and NATO military forces were intensifying their counterinsurgency operations, doubling the number of aerial and drone bombings, killing thousands of suspected or alleged militants and insurgents.
... is located in the middle of a major oil pipeline route that would grant American oil corporations a...
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