None of them want a messianic Sallafist country supporting Islamoid movements in the Caucasus or the 'Stans or among the Uighurs. Iran has the world's worst heroin problem. Iran wants Afghanistan pacified.
--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> From: Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] How Obama took over the peace movement
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 10:39 PM
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:19:32 -0700
> (PDT)
> Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > none of Afghanistan's neighbors want the US to
> leave
> > [Afghanistan, specifically] Iran, Russia, and
> China
>
> Do they all have the same reason? Or different reasons?
> This
> topic is not much discussed in any venue I ordinarily
> visit.
>
> Russia I could understand; after all, Zbig and Carter were
>
> deliriously happy back when the Bear got his paw in the
> trap
> there a few years ago. Trap on the other paw and all. But
> what
> about China and Iran?
>
> --
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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