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Originally Posted by Aristodemus  It's odd isn't it? Generally the anti-American writers on this site bemoan American foreign policy and reduce it to "it's all about oil". Here there is no oil. Maybe they are in Afghanistan for altruistic reasons? It's about time people realised that pax americanus is, on the whole, a good thing. |
Wow. Now you're processing 2 possibilities at a time. Actually, as is well known, Afghanistan is on a number of possible pipeline routes from Central Asia, and as such is of strategic significance.
Afghanistan is also home to the world's massice heroin trade; lots of money to be made here.
And by the way, what exactly is Pax Americana anyway? It seems pretty damned violent, corrupt and aggressive to me.