Thank you, so much, Prof. Cole, for giving us a clear, jargon-free, bulls-eye analysis of the multi-layered catastrophe that is our Afghanistan situation. Your essay is a stand alone masterpiece, needing no prior study by the reader. Yet, drawing on my own reading, I sense that Hopkirk's Great Game continues as we have assumed Britain's role as Russia's rival, and our oil industry warriors (Cheney, et al) have successfully committed the US armed forces to the pipeline wars. And now, untold mineral wealth beckons us to blast out those Afghan mountains...
Thank you, Prof. Chaudry for this comprehensive and lucid analysis of The Great Game.
Though by no means an expert, ever since I discovered that US and Soviet intelligence operatives had a keen interest in Azerbaijan in 1948, I have tried intermittently to follow events in the Caspian Sea area and, thanks to Asia Times, to follow the pipeline road. It is beyond my comprehension that Obama, like his predecessors, continues-even escalates-this doomed effort to own and control SE Asia real estate. I pray (without much hope) that the recent Times Square incident will not re-kindle the 9-11 hysteria so skillfully managed by the Bush administration.
Agreed, Janine. Already I can see the headlines: "McChrystal Announces Presidential Bid as Thousands Cheer"
Thank you, so much, Prof. Cole, for giving us a clear, jargon-free, bulls-eye analysis of the multi-layered catastrophe that is our Afghanistan situation. Your essay is a stand alone masterpiece, needing no prior study by the reader. Yet, drawing on my own reading, I sense that Hopkirk's Great Game continues as we have assumed Britain's role as Russia's rival, and our oil industry warriors (Cheney, et al) have successfully committed the US armed forces to the pipeline wars. And now, untold mineral wealth beckons us to blast out those Afghan mountains...
Thank you, Prof. Chaudry for this comprehensive and lucid analysis of The Great Game.
Though by no means an expert, ever since I discovered that US and Soviet intelligence operatives had a keen interest in Azerbaijan in 1948, I have tried intermittently to follow events in the Caspian Sea area and, thanks to Asia Times, to follow the pipeline road. It is beyond my comprehension that Obama, like his predecessors, continues-even escalates-this doomed effort to own and control SE Asia real estate. I pray (without much hope) that the recent Times Square incident will not re-kindle the 9-11 hysteria so skillfully managed by the Bush administration.