We went into Afghanistan to build the trans-afghan pipeline. If you had been paying attention to the building delays and constantly changing completion dates you would have noticed that every time a President talked about extending our troops' stay there, there was a delay in the completion of the pipeline.
The trans-Afghan pipeline completed in 2020. We handed over protection duties to the Taliban. Our withdrawal and their "invasion" was little more than a business deal.
I learned about it in 2005 after Ted Koppel elucidated the pipeline's development on Nightline and then 2 months later he announced his retirement and no one talked about it again.
The weird thing is that building a pipeline to circumvent russian influence is a perfectly reasonable reason to partake in military action. Because it's furthering the national interest.
They didn't ignore it.
We went into Afghanistan to build the trans-afghan pipeline. If you had been paying attention to the building delays and constantly changing completion dates you would have noticed that every time a President talked about extending our troops' stay there, there was a delay in the completion of the pipeline.
The trans-Afghan pipeline completed in 2020. We handed over protection duties to the Taliban. Our withdrawal and their "invasion" was little more than a business deal.
I learned about it in 2005 after Ted Koppel elucidated the pipeline's development on Nightline and then 2 months later he announced his retirement and no one talked about it again.
This is the first I'm hearing of it. Elites do love their black gold.
The weird thing is that building a pipeline to circumvent russian influence is a perfectly reasonable reason to partake in military action. Because it's furthering the national interest.
Every war by every nation is justified as furthering it's national interest.