>Now here's something you can be sure has the neocon's full
>attention. Many, including myself, feel that a great deal of US
>behaviour in the Middle East, particularly Afghanistan and Iraq, can
>be traced back to the Unocal pipeline that is being proposed to run
>through those very areas.
Oh really? Can you think of any sane businessperson that would invest billions in a pipeline across Afghanistan, one of the least stable places in the world (and with little hope for that changing in the forseeable future), when other alternatives are available? And if this really were the US motive, wouldn't they be doing a bit more to stabilize the country than sending the occasional patrol around to hunt for random Taliban?
Doug