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From: aaronsw <rssfeeds@example.com>
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Subject: Our Dumb Pipeline
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:00:16 -0000
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URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000640
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Date: 2002-10-06T21:28:33-06:00
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Ted Rall: My Government Went to Afghanistan and All I Got Was This Stupid
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Pipeline[1]
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Summary: The US begun planning courting the Taliban for permission to build an
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oil pipeline since 1997. We even flew Mullah Omar to Texas to try and convince
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him. After it was clear that wouldn't work, we threatened to bomb them and
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begun attacking on a smaller scale for a year before 9-11. We already planned
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to invade two months before the attacks. While it's not clear they knew about
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9-11 it certainly provided a convenient cover for their plans.
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Three days after we started bombing, we begun official work on the pipeline
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Karzai, the Afghanistan president we installed (who incidentally used to work
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for the oil company Unocal and was a former Talib) focused on the pipeline
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rather than rebuilding his torn country. Yet, the entire pipeline is unworkable
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because it's too expensive and will be sabotaged by warlords and Pakistan.
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Bin Laden was essentially a venture capitalist: he funded attacks but didn't
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carry them out. It's far more likely that an Egyptian group, Islamic Jihad,
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carried out the attacks. If we wanted to stop the terrorists, we should have
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gone after them. If we wanted to stop anti-Americanism, we should have gone
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after Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Instead, our bombing created the perfect
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opportunity for Bin Laden to escape. Nor did we bother to stabilize
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Afghanistan, the country is as ruined as ever.
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"Unfortunately, our government seized the moment as well, not to do good or
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right, but to take advantage--of our grief, of our naivete, of our lust for
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justice and vengeance. They did it to line the pockets of themselves and their
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friends, to gain political and economic advantage for a tiny coterie of
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influential people. In doing so, they endangered the rest of us. They took
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advantage of our ignorance about Islam, Caspian Sea oil and remote Central
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Asia. I have faith that the fundamental goodness of the American people will
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cause them to see what was done in their name, and to do something about it."
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[1] http://www.comicbookgalaxy.com/pipeline0.html
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