American Interests

Reading between the lines, what does it mean when Ambassador Holbrook special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan states that “military victory is not possible in Afghanistan, the best we can hope for is the protection of American interests.” Just what are the “American interests” that our military is now in charge of protecting?

What if the main American interest is oil and natural gas? There is plenty of it in countries surrounding Afghanistan where pipelines will be needed to transport this energy supply.

Harmid Karzai is a former oil executive who worked for Unocal, also known as Standard Oil of California. Why is an oil executive running Afghanistan? No wonder his government is corrupt, oil companies put profits over people.

Why does the State Department constantly harp on Iran’s desire to build nuclear weapons when both Pakistan and India have them, and of the three, Pakistan is a lot closer to giving terrorists a nuclear weapon. But it’s Iran who is in the news. Maybe Iran has more oil than Pakistan.

Why is it we’ll be sending billions to Pakistan over the next five years to combat terrorism? We’ve given them billions upon billions already, and they haven’t done anything but continue to support the Taliban, give the Taliban the choicest parts of Pakistan, and pay them off in Dollars, our dollars.

The oil companies are bleeding us here at home and Bin Laden wants to bleed us dry in Afghanistan, just like the Afghans did to the Russians.

Latest estimates are that these two wars will cost us one trillion. One heck of a price for us to pay to protect American interests.

The last oil president called this protection “the global war on terror”, now this new administration is calling this protection “overseas contingency operations”.

What’s in a name? Iran or Iraq, it’s all to protect us from nukes. Too bad we don’t have someone protecting us from American interests.