[lbo-talk] Afghanistan

[Dissenting Wren]

There are probably lots of "real reasons".  Rove telling Bush that this was a 
winning strategy.  The CIA seeing an opportunity for increased funding and sway 
(the famous "heads on pikes" presentation they made to Bush).  Karzai's weakness 
from 2002 onward.  And in the current administration, the same reason we were in 
Vietnam 1969-1972: Obama knows that leaving means the rapid collapse of the 
client regime, and that can't be allowed until after 2012.  I don't think 
there's any grand reason that explains how this is functional for the US empire, 
or for capital, etc.  (And no, I don't buy the whole oil pipeline thing).  To 
generalize modestly: the institutional propensity empires develop for 
intervention, combined with the inability of empires to get out gracefully when 
things go south.

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From: "123hop at comcast.net" <123hop at comcast.net>
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Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 9:07:00 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Afghanistan

By the way, why are we in Afghanistan? 

I don't mean the official reason; I mean the real reason.

j.
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