AfPak Primer

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Most informative overview I've read:
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/a-little-recap-of-what-we-already-know-about-afpak/

Feisty little blog.

Pashtuns see the current offensive in Waziristan as Zardari selling out to Washington, just as did Busharraf before him

its just a little spelling mistake, it was actually Musharraf, General Pervez Musharraf.

this is incredibly interesting Bosse, i myself could never really get a handle on why soldiers were being sent to Afghanistan under the guise of 'the war on terror', there is no resources there, there is no prospect on any kind of menace arising from the Afghanis, unless they fly kites laden with explosives over the oceans, nor did it occur that it could have such a sinister motive.

Washington’s rationale for occupying Afghanistan, never spelled out behind the cover story of “fighting Islamic extremism”, is pure Pentagon full spectrum dominance: to better spy on both China and Russia with forward outposts of the empire of bases; to engage in Pipelineistan, via the Trans-Afghan (TAPI) pipeline, if it ever gets built; and to have a controlling hand in the Afghan narco-trade via assorted warlords. Cheap heroin is literally flooding Russia, Iran and Eastern Europe. Not by accident, Moscow regards opium/heroin as the key issue to be tackled in Afghanistan, not Islamic fundamentalism.

well well!