| Paul St George on Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:13:01 +0100 (CET) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Texaco-istan |
Texaco-istan: or Gulf War II We now know that the US government planned to attack the Taliban over 2 months before 11 September 2001. We also know that there is oil in Tajikistan and that the Taliban refused to allow the US to pipe this oil across Afghanistan to the Gulf. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm Is the US attacking Afghanistan so that they can replace the Taliban? Does the US want to replace the Taliban with a government that will permit pipes to carry oil across Afghanistan? Is the US attacking Afghanistan to enable and ensure cheaper oil for US businesses? If George Dublya Bush was not from Texas, if oil money had not been part of the US election process and democracy had not been conflated with capitalism we could have more confidence in the answers to these questions. -- Paul St George _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold