Comments on: Voting for Afghanistan. Again and again and again http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/voting-for-afghanistan-again-and-again-and-again/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:40:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: AR http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/voting-for-afghanistan-again-and-again-and-again/#comment-35779 AR Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:12:56 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/voting-for-afghanistan-again-and-again-and-again/#comment-35779 Richard - my guess is to cleave off the western, relatively (sic! we are talking Afghanistan) flat terrain from Uzbekistan through Baluchistan ( the next theatre of NATO/Coalition of the Drilling) operations to pacifiy/depopulate) to the coast. This is a Fazir speaking, mostly Shia, relatively cultured (see above...!) region which will be happy to be receive pipeline revenues and be rid of the Wahhabi crazed Pushtus further east and the irrelvant mayor of Kabul's pretensions. I haven't been there for 30yrs but it's always (only a millenia or so but...) been a fairly stable (again, see above) country, spurning the tribal madness elsewhere. Richard - my guess is to cleave off the western, relatively (sic! we are talking Afghanistan) flat terrain from Uzbekistan through Baluchistan ( the next theatre of NATO/Coalition of the Drilling) operations to pacifiy/depopulate) to the coast. This is a Fazir speaking, mostly Shia, relatively cultured (see above…!) region which will be happy to be receive pipeline revenues and be rid of the Wahhabi crazed Pushtus further east and the irrelvant mayor of Kabul’s pretensions.
I haven’t been there for 30yrs but it’s always (only a millenia or so but…) been a fairly stable (again, see above) country, spurning the tribal madness elsewhere.

]]> By: Richard Wilson http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/voting-for-afghanistan-again-and-again-and-again/#comment-35765 Richard Wilson Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:02:40 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/27/voting-for-afghanistan-again-and-again-and-again/#comment-35765 Can somebody please tell me why we are in Afghanistan again? Can somebody please tell me why we are in Afghanistan again?

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