What everyone forgets about Afghanistan is the “deal” that Dick Cheney’s buddies proposed to the Taliban when they were hosted by Unocal in Houston well before 9-11. “You can have a carpet of bombs or a carpet of gold.” This was in response to the natural gas pipeline that was proposed to go from the Caspian basin through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean to supply Enrons multi billon dollar plant that was built in India. No natural gas-no money for Enron. The Taliban was being pressured to give up a deal they already made with an Argentinian company to build the pipeline. Dick Cheney and his cronies at Haliburtan tried to strong arm the situation so that the pipeline would be built by Unocal. This had to really piss off the Taliban. Well, lo and behold—9-11 came about and this was a great excuse to invade. Hamid Karzai was installed in the puppet government that was set up and guess what!—Like magic, the pipeline was built and controlled by everyone that had an interest in all the money to be made from this situation. And guess what else-Karzai was a former Unocal consultant. All of them war profiteers! I feel bad for the Afghan people, but we never would have been there in the first place, if multinational oil companies had no interest in the region. We would have gone in and taken Osama and his boys out in a Special Ops. Read all about it:http://www.counterpunch.org/tomenron.html

And I thought this was the war we already “won”. Just another merger and acquisition gone bad for Bu$h Inc.
And by the way Marshall, this isn’t a NATO failure this is a Bu$h Inc. failure under the guise of NATO. Or did you forget who controls and really is NATO and has been since it’s creation. History has either been a very poor teacher for you or you a very poor student.
Russia, Afghanistan - utter failure, deja vu.

I don’t understand.  All those trustwothy journalists on Fox News keep saying that everything is going wonderfully well in Afghanistan- that we are almost ready to declare victory.  Of course, that is predicated on the fact that we are killing more Afghanis every day; you know, children and all.