Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 15:26:10 -0600
To: audreymlj@bigvalley.net
From: Audrey (by way of believer@telepath.com)
Subject: [AM] Afghanistan
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BRUTAL RUSSIANS AND PHANTOM CHINESE
The big players in the War in Afghanistan are the United States,
Russia, and China. Each has declared a common interest in getting rid of
terrorists, and both China and Russia have appeared to accept the idea that
the motive of the United States is retaliation for the September 11th
attacks in New York and Washington.
Few people, even ardent weavers of conspiracy theories, have
suggested that the U.S. government was behind the destruction of the
twin towers, even though there is evidence that some
people high up in the US government may have known what was to happen and
acted to make money off the impending catastrophe. What about the other
two players?
Russia has been battling the Islamic fundamentalists for some
years now, and there must be some sincerity in their stated support since
they have sent men and tanks to help. (We will not discuss oil pipelines
or the Russian need to participate in the invasion so that they will have
something to say about the composition of a future Afghan
government.)
Many Americans have condemned the war in Chechnya, and voiced
shock and horror at the conduct of the Russian Army. U.S. presidents have
even remonstrated with Putin over what they called unnecessary brutality
against civilians and unnecessary destruction of property. Putin knew
something American pacifists chose to ignore, and that was that the Islamic
fundamentalists were fanatic and also expansionist, that they would not
stop with Chechnya, but planned to move forward to establish their Islamic
states where ever they possibly could. Russian atheists, agnostics, Jews,
Christians, and even the vast majority of Muslims do not want the Taliban
type of theocracy (Wahabism).
Does the role of Russia in Chechnya look different to Americans
after the Sept. 11th attacks and the anthrax deaths?
What will China do?
Ever since the Korean War Americans have feared that China
would send thousands of "volunteers" to beef up any
military action in a region where she had an interest. It did happen fifty
years ago in Korea.
It did not happen in Viet Nam, but last year there was
a report that 700,000 Chinese troops had been quietly moved into the Sudan
to defend the Chinese interests in the Sudanese oil fields.
The report proved false, but the idea persists and has recently surfaced as an
unconfirmed report that some Chinese are fighting alongside the Taliban in
Afghanistan.
China does have an economic interest in the Tenghiz oil
fields* and wants to build a pipeline. She also has some troublesome
Islamic separatists in the far western region of Xinjiang. In fact, they
recently executed a couple of them.
Would China find it convenient to send
some of those fanatics to be cannon fodder in Afghanistan?
And what does President Bush have to say? While he rumbles
platitudes and spouts ghost written propaganda, most Americans know that
the war in Afghanistan is not a simple contest between good and evil. Nor
is it just a matter of capitalist imperialism or religious expansionism,
but it is a war with many players and many faces, one of which is covered
with oil.
Click Here to read about the linkage.
*Caspian Sea Region in Central Asia
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/10/17/china-execute.htm
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/priniotakis-m-10-26.html
http://printerfriendly.abcnews.com/printerfriendly/Print?fetchFromGLUE=true&GLUEService=ABCNewsCom,
http://www3.cnn.com/SPECIALS/views/y/2000/12/mackinnon.xinjiang.dec14/
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=100152http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=100152,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/05/2001-05-01-china.htm
http://www.southsudanfriends.org/issues/RefineryOnline.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000118613908976&rtmo=r292bahX&atmo=r292bahX&pg=/et/00/8/27/wsud27.html,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2001/10/09/china.htm
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