Why did the US invade Afghanistan? Was it the pipeline that nobody has ever gotten around to building, or the fact that 2000+ people had just been murdered?
--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, but really, weren't the Russians just looking for
> a pretext? The
> Georgians aren't innocents, but the Russians
> weren't motivated by a
> humane rescue mission either? Great powers don't act
> that way.
>
> Doug
>