Column on straightgoods.ca on Coming Spring Offensive in Afghanistan
This is to alert readers to my column on straightgoods.ca on the coming spring offensive in Afghanistan and the changing strategic realities of the war.
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"The US has moved aircraft carriers into the region ready to attack should the signal come from Washington."
This is an odd sentence indeed, implying as it does that the "US" and "Washington", are somehow two different entities, that the people moving the aircraft carriers are not the same people who will give the attack signal.
I was also struck by the absence of any discussion, both in this article and the author's book on Afghanistan, of the role that the trans-Afghanistan natural gas pipeline might play in the Western occupation of this country. The U.S. wants it built; the Taliban does not.
In the sentence you quote, I'm just distinguishing between the head and the rest of the beast if you like.
I agree that the U.S. has paramount economic and geo-strategic interests in Central Asia. But these focus much more on Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey (BTC Pipeline) and on Kazakhstan than on Afghanistan.
2 comments:
"The US has moved aircraft carriers into the region ready to attack should the signal come from Washington."
This is an odd sentence indeed, implying as it does that the "US" and "Washington", are somehow two different entities, that the people moving the aircraft carriers are not the same people who will give the attack signal.
I was also struck by the absence of any discussion, both in this article and the author's book on Afghanistan, of the role that the trans-Afghanistan natural gas pipeline might play in the Western occupation of this country. The U.S. wants it built; the Taliban does not.
In the sentence you quote, I'm just distinguishing between the head and the rest of the beast if you like.
I agree that the U.S. has paramount economic and geo-strategic interests in Central Asia. But these focus much more on Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey (BTC Pipeline) and on Kazakhstan than on Afghanistan.
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