A haunting question so difficult to explain is, Why are we in Afghanistan? Why would the US military be willing to spend a trillion dollars or more in this region? Four trillion are estimated as the cost of current US wars.
One incredible story in the EU Times describes a wrecked "time machine" embedded in the ground and a labyrinth of underground military bases. That would certainly accord with Buddhist cosmology of ancient astronauts and alien visitation in the region from Sumer (Mt. Sumeru?) to the Hindu Kush range to the Himalayas.
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald explain the "invisible history" of how the American Empire and previous empires have tried to conquer and rule what we now call Afghanistan. This Zero Line region (squeezed between Iran and Pakistan and topped by former Soviet states now independent "Fill in the Blank-istan" countries) in Central Asia is collectively and loosely called the "Geopolitical Middle East."
Today (listen at Audio Archives, KPFK.org, July 1, 2011, 10:00 AM) on the Michael Slate Show (Pacifica Radio) author Larry Everest provided a brief but compelling explanation of why Obama-CIA and Bush-Cheney before that have had to gain control of Afghanistan at all costs.
- What does the US military-industrial complex, the American Empire, want with it?
- What did the Soviet Empire (USSR) want with it when the CIA was fighting them by funding the Taliban?
- What did the British Empire want with India's Northwest Frontier Area (now Afghanistan and Pakistan)?
- What did the Greek (Bactrian or or Greco-Indian) Empire?
One incredible story in the EU Times describes a wrecked "time machine" embedded in the ground and a labyrinth of underground military bases. That would certainly accord with Buddhist cosmology of ancient astronauts and alien visitation in the region from Sumer (Mt. Sumeru?) to the Hindu Kush range to the Himalayas.
Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald explain the "invisible history" of how the American Empire and previous empires have tried to conquer and rule what we now call Afghanistan. This Zero Line region (squeezed between Iran and Pakistan and topped by former Soviet states now independent "Fill in the Blank-istan" countries) in Central Asia is collectively and loosely called the "Geopolitical Middle East."
Today (listen at Audio Archives, KPFK.org, July 1, 2011, 10:00 AM) on the Michael Slate Show (Pacifica Radio) author Larry Everest provided a brief but compelling explanation of why Obama-CIA and Bush-Cheney before that have had to gain control of Afghanistan at all costs.
- Larry Everest: Afghanistan, NOT a Good War Gone Bad
- Larry Everest: Oil, Power and Empire
- Joyce Riley: Who is Larry Everest?
