Afghanistan

I say….a reason for everything and for everything a reason. Now it looks like this cliché can be applied to the ongoing situation in Afghanistan. I have long suspected that there was a stronger underlying motive for the so called war in Afghanistan. This week a headline piece in the Globe and Mail by journalist Shawn McCarthy blew the lid off this concealed underlying motive.

Turns out Afghanistan and three of its neighboring countries have agreed to build a $7.6 billion pipeline to deliver natural gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India. The proposed pipeline route, it turns out, will pass right through – yes you guessed it - Kandahar Province, a hotspot of military action. And of course the men of influence in Washington also have their fingers in the cookie jar. It seems this pipeline project if completed on time will block a competing pipeline that the Iranians would like to build. This Afghani pipeline would also serve to challenge the dominance of Russia in the area. If construction can get underway by 2010, gas should be flowing through the pipeline in 2015. Read more »