(December 1, 2013 at 11:06 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:Quote:I was speaking rhetorically. Iraq, oil 4 sure. Afghanistan was Bin Laden. But if we had any sense we'd cut this crap out. We never did get any oil out of Iraq so far as I know. All we do is look stupid and piss a lot of people off.Afghanistan has geopolitical value, friend. They can't really have bases in any of the ex-soviet Central Asian republics, which have oil, natural gas, uranium and etc...So a reliable client state in the form of Afghanistan was to be created.
Point taken. But how reliable is Afghanistan likely to be as a client state? Is this not the same country known as the "graveyard of empires"?
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― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
