Teribus,

I think that the links noted below will help clarify the true intent of Unocal and other international players, with regards to Afghanistan.

http://911review.org/brad.com/archives/oil/pipeline_routes_Caspian.html

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.htm

It does not really matter if the oil pipeline has been built yet. If it is not built today it will be built tomorrow. The "West" cannot have Russia controlling deliveries or the terms thereof, of oil or gas to Europe -ask Georgia, Ukraine and Germany, notwithstanding Nord Stream. And by all means necessary, China must NEVER be allowed to "suck-up" all the world's oil before we -The West- have a chance to do it. At the end of the day, the oil "spigot" needs to be controlled by the "West's" international conglomerate oil companies.

There is one thing that has always confused me; at first, the U.S. was not into "Nation Building" -according to "G.W.", but, then, for some reason(s), that line of thinking went out the door and now we own the "Money...and life Pits" of the middle east, Iraq and Afghanistan, from which -by the way- the U.S. will NEVER leave.

But of course, we need to help develop all the nations in which we have a "security interest". What matters is that Afghanistan gets "help" in liberating their people from the Taliban. Just like we need to "help" liberate the "oppressed" people of Iran, as we did the oppressed people of Iraq; that is, help liberate them from "our" oil.

By the way, in 1998, Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) made a deal with the Taliban; Unocal was part of CentGas.