Radical news
Jan. 11th, 2010 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderplanetSo, there are less than 100 members of Al Qaeda within Afghanistan, and the war killed more than 1000 children last year. if Al Qaeda isn't any real threat, then what's the point of going to war?
This might come as a shock, but it turns out that there's oil involved. At least one reporter has called the region "Pipelineistan"
I know this might be a point of contention, but I think that killing three children per day is not worth having to suffer the inconvenience of legislating that auto manufacturers be required to develop electric vehicles, but maybe that's just my radical leftist extremism talking.
It's not covered in that article, but it is my opinion that Afghanistan is also an important locale in the control of the drug trade.
Comments rarely happen at the public posts here, but I'll leave this part anyway. As always, feel free to comment if you have something useful to contribute to the discussion, but it's not my job to explain the principles of economics to anyone. Stupid or offensive comments will be deleted or ridiculed at my whim.
This might come as a shock, but it turns out that there's oil involved. At least one reporter has called the region "Pipelineistan"
...the U.S. and China are competing to develop the Pakistan port town of Gwadar as the termination point for both proposed pipelines as part of the 21st century revival of the 19th-century "Great Game" in which rival imperial powers competed for influence in Central Asia.
I know this might be a point of contention, but I think that killing three children per day is not worth having to suffer the inconvenience of legislating that auto manufacturers be required to develop electric vehicles, but maybe that's just my radical leftist extremism talking.
It's not covered in that article, but it is my opinion that Afghanistan is also an important locale in the control of the drug trade.
Comments rarely happen at the public posts here, but I'll leave this part anyway. As always, feel free to comment if you have something useful to contribute to the discussion, but it's not my job to explain the principles of economics to anyone. Stupid or offensive comments will be deleted or ridiculed at my whim.
