And what is the US agenda? It is not purging the Taliban or nabbing bin Laden in Afghanistan. It is not about introducing democracy or ensuring the rights of women. This hoax must be rubbished. It is about plunder of oil and mineral resources in the Central Asian States (CAS). Unfortunate are the countries having enormous natural resources and poor defence, for the decadent empire will fabricate a charge against them to divest them of their possessions. Afghanistan's misfortune is that it is the gateway to CAS riches. Union Oil of California (Unocal) had at one time signed a contract to lay the pipeline from Turkmenistan to Karachi through Afghanistan. A group of Taliban was invited to visit Unocal headquarters in Texas (Bush constituency) and stayed there as company's guests. But Laden threw spanner in the works by warning the Taliban for having themselves sold cheap hence US animus against him. It is a misconception that had the Taliban handed over Laden to the US, it could have prevented the invasion on Afghanistan. US war is all about oil and against those acting as impediments in its pursuit.
Zbigniew Brzezinsky of Carter era, in his study The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geo-strategic Imperatives, noted how the world's energy consumption would increase, therefore, whoever controlled the Caspian oil and gas would control the world economy. Deeply linked with oil business, Cheney-Bush duo and the neo-cons picked up the thread where Brzezinsky left off in 1997. Bush's bluster that the next 9/11 type attack on US would come from FATA, which to the bewilderment of many, PM Gilani has recently parroted, is sheer nonsense. Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11 neither do they now possess the ability to embark upon such an adventure. 9/11 was an inside job by the intelligence networks, therefore, no serious inquiry was conducted. Had one been conducted, the perfidious US-Israel nexus would have stood blazing on the top, according to Gore Vidal in his book Dreaming war.
We have, unfortunately, allowed ourselves to act a pawn in the US global agenda to dominate resource-rich countries. We must be aware that "superpower" is no democracy, it is a government dictated by the avarice of its corporations. US congressmen do not represent their electorate as much as they represent the interests of the multinational corporations that finance their election campaigns. To reciprocate, they promote interests of corporate America. When George Bush says that the US would attack any country that threatens its security, many doubt the rationality of his logic, because no country poses any threat to US security. But when analysed in the backdrop of US conglomerates' agenda to pillage resource-rich weak countries, the dices begin to sit precisely in their places. There is a well-defined method in Bush-Cheney's recklessness.Naïve it is indeed not to imagine that bin Laden is no more but the empire wants to keep him alive for its own regional interests. Laden was a kidney patient before the US invasion of Afghanistan. He had imported two dialysis machines, one for his personal use and other for the public. How could he still be alive when the US-led NATO forces have occupied the country for the last many years? Insurgency now witnessed is by the local Afghanis whether one calls them Taliban, Pashtuns or terrorists. They want to push the fortune hunters out of their land. Whether or not they succeed is anybody's guess, but for now the empire is determined to convert the region into new Middle East.The empire selects its own men in the countries it chooses to plunder. In its parlance they're called "assets" such as Karzai in Afghanistan, Maliki in Iraq, and others willing to promote its interests and inflict untold miseries upon their own people. Since the bottom line is to plunder resources, therefore, it would not make a whit of difference who occupies the White House, Obama, Hillary or McCain. They are hostage to corporate interests. Presidential hopeful Obama thinks Pakistan-bashing endears him to the controlled US mainstream media. Yet, the New Yorker has ridiculed him by satirising him and wife in its front-page issue, with Obama in Taliban style turban and his wife brandishing a Kalashnikov. Don't we know who owns New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and other major newspapers that regularly appear in the list of top ten most read US newspapers? Who determines their readability status? Let us not forget we are a blip on the electronic chessboard of US rush to grab the CAS resources.
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