Mike Morin wrote:Halliburton (remember Dick Cheney) builds pipelines and military logistics, and other oil and gas field and related supplies. Then there's EXXON-Mobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and a host of others. Then there's the "folks" that builds terminals, then there are tankers to be used, perhaps built. Then there's the entire Capitalist Financial system which has an insane growth imperative. $2 billion for a pipeline is chumps' change.
The idea with building a pipeline like this is making money. Explain to me how it would make money.
Also explain why Afghanisan would be the prefered route, when there is in reality better routes.
Besides, how much revenge do you want from the Afghanis?
I don't want revenge. I'm not the US government or even American. The mission now is to make sure the Talibans don't take over again.
Will the USA be satisfied when they have committed total genocide? At least then, their pipeline will be secure.
If the Americans had wanted to commit genocide on the Afghans there wouldn't be a single Afghan left after 8 years of war. Indeed, not even after 8 minutes.
How do you define genocide?
"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."