"Drawing the Enemy in Deep" A Speculation

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

Carrol, Exxon and Halliburton have already got the oil rights. The problem
is getting the stuff to the Asian market. The western pipeline routes aren't
that profitable. The growth markets are China and India. That's where they
want to deliver the - non-OPEC - oil & gas. There's also the fact that
Muslim fundamentalist guerillas operating in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Kyrghzistan, and China's Xinjiang province, are based in northern
Afghanistan. So getting rid of the Taliban means that Exxon and Halliburton
execs will sleep a lot easier knowing the dictators they've bribed in the
Central Asian republics are safe.

Hakki Alacakaptan

 || -----Original Message-----

 || From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

 || [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox

 ||

 || From almost the beginning I have been reluctant to believe that

 || Washington could be so stupid as to involve themselves in a lengthy war

 || anyplace in Asia. Nor could I believe that direct political/military

 || control of a pipeline route could be a rational motive for such an

 || involvement. They (U.S. & oil industry strategists) must know, I

 || thought, as well as many of their critics that the oil of the region was

 || available for sale to the "west" regardless of the military or political

 || context in which it was produced.
(...)

 || Carrol