MSM TV News never mentions pipelines through Afghanistan, it's all about the evil "terrorists"

[Postman]

That's it?

The Afghanistan War after 8 years, twice as long as WW II, is about finding 100 guys in a cave to stop them from "planning" another lucky strike?

You can't stop someone from "planning" no more than you can stop someone from "thinking"....

This is absurd.

on edit: there could be upwards of 100 people in a skinhead organization somewhere in Idaho "planning" to assassinate "liberals" in DC. How come the 82nd Airborne isn't dropping from the sky on Idaho?(Posse Comitatus?).....not that I would want that but my point is that the stated reason (fighting terrorism - 100 guys) for Afghanistan doesn't take a deployment of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of mercenaries...it's about more than that.

[snagglepuss]

1. That's so true. The pipeline is never mentioned.

I wish Stewart or Colbert would address this glaring omission.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Cause It's Impossible To Build It...

and if our oil companies aren't seeing it now they never will. This country is divided by many factions...all who either have to be united or pacified to make such a project possible. We're seeing that either case is next to impossible and surely would put a high price in bribes and other "considerations" to the oil companies. They want access cheap...it doesn't pay to build a pipeline that would be constantly sabotaged or used for blackmail by one war lord or another.

Also the oil politics in the region have changed. In the 80s when the pipeline idea first came up, it was to circumvent the Soviet Union, but now our oil companies have their tentacles in the oil and gas rich areas of the region and have already set up pipelines and deals in the various "Stans" north of Afghanistan as well as having close relationships with the Russian energy conglomerates.

The Afghanistan war as well as the Iraq invasion have been turned into piggy banks for the contractors. It's not just the Haliburtons and Xes but also General Dynamics and General Electric and Boeing and many other corporates that provide the war materials...that's where the spigot has been turned on and continues to flow.

[C_Lawyer09]

4. The former 750 billion barrel estimate was wrong

And your post is right on the money. Also consider the fact how much cheaper African oil(AFRICOM)will be to transport, but most importantly to refine. From what I've read it is supposedly the pure honey of all oil deposits.

[C_Lawyer09]

3. We tried but the ceiling was low

and the winds on the drop zone were 22 knots.

[zbdent]

5. correction ... the Afghan war is not twice as long as WWII ... it's twice as long as

the U.S. official involvement in WWII ...

9/1/1939, Germany invades Poland, generally accepted as the start of the war, to 9/2/1945, generally accepted as the end of the war (formal surrender of Japan) - 2193 days

12/7/1941, Japan declares war on U.S. (formal declaration delivered to Washington D.C.) - 1365 days

Even if you say 9/12/2001 as the start of the war on Afghanistan, and that's being generous, to today, it's still only 3001 days. World War II doubled would really be 4386 days.

Just for the record ...

[Kaleva]

6. The first American KIA was early 1940.

He was killed by Russians.