tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post115737869535944889..comments2023-10-20T09:13:15.862-04:00Comments on Swedish Meatballs Confidential (pNSFW): The New Yorker: The World After 9-11M1http://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-1157598015782803432006-09-06T23:00:00.000-04:002006-09-06T23:00:00.000-04:00The clinchers to me are 1) the pipelines, and 2) t...The clinchers to me are 1) the pipelines, and 2) the permanent US military bases.<BR/><BR/>Those two aspects of control of oil and the region in general are the only logical reasons for us to be in either Afghanland and/or Iraq.<BR/><BR/><BR/>This is odd. I just "logged in and published" and found myself right back here again. Maybe I misspelled the 'Mystery Word'...<BR/><BR/>I shall try again.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13137529614319346972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-1157492910694668982006-09-05T17:48:00.000-04:002006-09-05T17:48:00.000-04:00Well who dug the Talibunnies, pre911?....not even ...Well who dug the Talibunnies, pre911?....not even Mrs Clinton. She and Oprah had us all, including soccer moms, loathing the talibunnies. But I never bought into the <I>Afghanistan was OK but Iraq was a diversion</I> wussiness. I saw Afghanyland as but a domino in an econostrategic game plan, though the pretext for selling the hit on Afghanistan had a more credible narrative (thanks to Oprah - and the purported Osama connection)than did Iraq. I saw it as part as a grab of Central Asia, nuthin else. Though that doesn't mean it can't be a lot of other things for those that have to go there and fight. But hey, we simply dont topple regimes cuz theyre mean to chicks. Look at Saudi Arabia - SA makes Iran look like Las Vegas after dark and Berkeley by day.M1https://www.blogger.com/profile/05394503964463278951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19661405.post-1157442416900858412006-09-05T03:46:00.000-04:002006-09-05T03:46:00.000-04:00Did you, like Hersh, think at the time that the pr...Did you, like Hersh, think at the time that the premise of the Afghanistan war was right?<BR/><BR/>I am constantly amazed by otherwise intelligent people who were snookered into this line of thinking, and seemed to only wake up when the Iraq war was looming.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13137529614319346972noreply@blogger.com