Afghanistan

Afghans want to be left alone. So do Englishmen by and large. Do they get their wishes? Not a chance. The Americans are there ramming peace down their throats using rifles, bombs, aircraft, land mines, you name it. Why? Bush claimed that his friend Osama was there. So what? It made a good excuse to invade.

 

Casevac
Men go out, men die, men see casualties. Do they ask why? They really should.

 

American Casevac In Afghanistan [ 30 July 2010 ]
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As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
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Casevac [ casualty evacuation ] looks rough but it is probably as good as it ever can get. When men start seeing and when their mothers starting seeing they might ask just why they they are being used as cannon fodder. When that happens the generals can forget their promotion. That is why they try to suppress the truth. If you think they are telling it like it is look at 73,846 Men Dead In Iraq More on this one at Casevac. The pictures are in glorious Technicolor®

 

Fuel What A Stinker [ 5 July 2010 ]
An office shared with an escort agency above a shop in the Finchley Road, contracts worth over $700 million, a congressional investigation and a president's son on the run. Sounds like a plot for a novel. But it's true life and real news. That is why the main stream media are keeping quiet about it. Private Eye is an honourable exception. It is only the American tax payer being robbed. Perhaps that is why nobody is babbling.

How are we going to get the men out of Afghanistan when the politicians decide to end a pointless war? Not through the Khyber Pass and 1200 miles down to Karachi for starters. Through the stans to the north sounds better. Read this and know that banditry has gone over to heavy metal. It is not just Kalashnikovs and land mines.

 

Afghanistan Big Oil And Truth [ 11 April 2010 ]
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It has been revealed in the Indian media that efforts will be made to speed up the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project next weekend [ Efforts on to revive TAPI gas pipeline project ], the outcome of which could seal the fate of thousands of British and other Western troops over the coming years. The conference, to be held in Turkmenistan’s capital, Ashkhabad, will be the first high-level meeting on the project for almost three years. It follows in the wake of Operation Moshtarak, the military offensive to wrest Afghanistan’s strategically important Helmand Province, through which the proposed pipeline will be built, from Taliban control.
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You might wonder just why it is that British troops are going to protect a pipeline through enemy territory to supply India. Remember that Falklands oil is not on stream yet. The Foreign Office tried to get rid of it. Maggie beat them but their treachery cost men's lives. Now it is all happening again.

 

Afghanistan Invasion Explained - It's Oil [ 12 July 2009 ]
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The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company..........

Unocal foresees a pipeline which would become part of a regional system that will gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day. The estimated cost of the project, which is similar in scope to the trans-Alaska pipeline, is about $2.5 billion........

Last October, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Consortium, called CentGas, in which Unocal holds an interest, was formed to develop a gas pipeline which will link Turkmenistan's vast Dauletabad gas field with markets in Pakistan and possibly India. The proposed 790-mile pipeline will open up new markets for this gas, traveling from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Multan in Pakistan. The proposed extension would move gas on to New Delhi, where it would connect with an existing pipeline. As with the proposed Central Asia oil pipeline, CentGas can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place.
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This evidence was given to the American Congress back in 1998. The 9/11 Job was just an excuse.

Starship Troopers was the name of a book by RA Heinlein. Pipeline Troopers are different.

 

Was the election corrupt? Of course. So what? Afghans have their own perfectly good system of government. They do not like being harassed by high tech hooligans.