With regard to all the latest complaints on President Obama's indecision as to the next step in Afghanistan..There could be a reason to the delay...Let's review...
President Billy Carter started the "secret" support for Afghanistan's Mujahideen at least 6 months (on July 3, 1979) BEFORE the official CIA version.. which said the US started it's support in 1980, AFTER the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in Dec 1979. Ronald Reagan continued this support when he becomes President in 1981 and even calls the Taliban "Freedom fighters."
Financial support (MILLIONS and MILLIONS of US dollars) and financial support from the Saudis was given to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fanatical fundamentalist and women hater who threw acid on women not wearing the Islamic veil. Hekmatyar was a commander AGAINST the Soviets and was one of the key leaders during the Afghanistan civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal. From 1993-1994 he was the Prime Minister and despite his human rights abuses against the people in Afghanistan, he was a "friend" of the US. THEN he became an enemy. BUT the Taliban came to the rescue.
In 1996 the Taliban obtained power and became a "friend" of the US. (Side note: A "friend" of the US is someone who supports US "interests"). Oops.. then right before 9/11, the Taliban becomes an enemy when it doesn't support all of Enron and UNICAL's demands to build a pipeline from the Caspian Sea, through Afghanistan and on to Pakistan.
In the mean time, the ex-"friend," now enemy, Hekmatyar flees the country, lives in Iran for a while, but is NOW at the present time believed to be living in southeast Afghanistan where with his group, the HIG (Hezb-e-Isami), is claiming responsibility for attacks against Coalition forces.
In the mean time, the ex-"friend," now enemy, Hekmatyar flees the country, lives in Iran for a while, but is NOW at the present time believed to be living in southeast Afghanistan where with his group, the HIG (Hezb-e-Isami), is claiming responsibility for attacks against Coalition forces.
But the US and sitting Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai want to be "friends" AGAIN with Hekmatyar. Karzai offers "positions for those who are opponents of the government." This olive branch is directed towards Hekmatyar.. in hopes of turning his NOW support for the Taliban towards support for Karzai and the US.
Hamid Karzai, even though propped up by the US as a "good-guy," and a so-called "champion for freedom and democracy", is as fraudulent as most of the other characters connected to the mess in Afghanistan. Look at one Karzai brother's suspected connections as a big time Heroin kingpin in poppy producing Kandahar province and another brother's illegal business dealings. As usual.. follow the money... Follow the money...
Seriously, what's the objective NOW in Afghanistan? What will define "victory" there? It's been 8 years since we started looking for Osama bin Laden to either capture him "dead or alive." What's the flip flop, flipping reason NOW?
How's the Trans-Afghan pipeline coming along? Americans.. are you keeping track of this pipeline's progress? Have any of you noticed WHERE in Afghanistan most of your causalities are located?.. Is there a connection between the pipeline location and the causalities? The world community is well aware that this war has NOTHING to do with protecting America's "freedom" or giving the Afghanistan people "freedom," as patriotic as that may sound to Americans. it's all about MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.. MONEY to be made in DRUGS, OIL and GAS.
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