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In reply to the discussion: It's Just Shocking What the Drone War Cheerleaders Are Willing to Say Out Loud [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Even when none of those people could have found the US on a map, once you kill their kids, they start thinking of ways to get back at you.
The war in Afghanistan was never about 9-11. Had that been the case, there would have been no war. There would have been a massive international police action. Has everyone forgotten how the rest of the world stood with us and offered to help?
But no. We needed a war in Afghanistan. Remember Bushco promising the Taliban a carpet of gold if they played nice, but a carpet of bombs if they obstructed us? That was in the summer of 2001, before 9-11. We told them we'd be in there by October if they didn't accede to the demands of the Empire.
We wanted to put pipelines across Afghanistan to transport oil & gas out of the the old Soviet 'stans, and we wanted to mine the rare earths. And we wanted to get all that stuff before the Chinese grabbed it.
So we went to war in Afghanistan for the convenience of the energy & electronics industries, just as we went to war with Iraq so we could divide up their oil fields among our oil companies like you divide up a side of beef.