14-03-2013, 09:53 AM
Karzai himself was an oil executive, I believe...so not naive to the geopolitical 'value' of resources. Few know that Afghanistan likely has more mineral wealth than any other nation...perhaps equal to Congo...perhaps more. And they have a very lovely flower....the poppy. No one is thinking of ecotourism there...this is crass grabs for geopolitical resources and geopolitical positioning of more military bases [as if the US didn't have enough]. The People, Peace, Justice, Law and Morality be damned. Weren't the Taliban once our declared enemy and terrorists? Then [publicly and more privately] we were backing Al Quida [against the evil Soviets for invading the country we NOW invade!]....it all just a game...in which the average person looses [often their lives].
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass