Gorbachev Advises Obama to Withdraw From Afghanistan

[the klingon]

there wasnt much oil; to gain in airaq either thats why no americans went for it........the uiraq war was wrong for reaosns other than oil, and so is afghanistan

Cool story bro! It was about non-existent WMD right?
Yes they tried to get the oil but the Iraqi's gave the contracts to someone else. That's one of the reasons why UK had to perform the recent foreign policy circus with regard to Libya.
Absolutely astonishing turn if events.

Russia doesn't want them on their soil sucking out money from their people either. But they are strong enough and big enough to resist "Democratic" theft unlike us.

[eyeswideopen]

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.

No, they don't. I think there maay be one poster of that view. Afghanistan is a strategic target as it has land boundaries with China, Iran, India, Pakistan and the former USSR territories. The US has been in Afghanistan since the 70s at least, funding war lords and training "jihadists". The heroin funds its activities and is in itself a weapon against the population of the region.

You have to read Brzezinski, who spells out US strategy and was involved there himself from the 70s.