Jeff Stein in
CQ, here
".... down 20 points .......... the president had ample reason to believe liberals would follow him into Afghanistan, which many liberals touted as the "good war" (as opposed to the "bad war" in Iraq).......... the good war has gone too bad to be salvaged now, especially if it requires more troops.... Obama is said to be resisting the desires of his new commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for more troops. ....
Somewhat ironically, Republicans pretty much like Obama's efforts on Afghanistan.
But exactly what is it that's worth fighting for? Defeating the Taliban? Smashing Al Qaeda? Turning Afghanistan into a stable democracy?
To many, it remains unclear. But that may be exactly what the administration secretly wants....."
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I don't know maybe it has something to do with natural pipelines.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175071
Pepe Escobar: Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak
"Afghanistan, as it happens, sits conveniently at the crossroads of any new Silk Road linking the Caucasus to western China, and four nuclear powers (China, Russia, Pakistan, and India) lurk in the vicinity. "Losing" Afghanistan and its key network of U.S. military bases would, from the Pentagon's point of view, be a disaster, and though it may be a secondary matter in the New Great Game of the moment, it's worth remembering that the country itself is a lot more than the towering mountains of the Hindu Kush and immense deserts: it's believed to be rich in unexplored deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chrome, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, and iron ore, as well as precious and semiprecious stones."
Yeah must be all about a stable democracy haha good one.
:D
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