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The Afghan campaign is the first armed conflict with an international dimension. Its global scope is grander than those of the two world wars of the first half of the last century. This is a battle for world domination. The grand scenario that has been the aim for generations.
In Afghanistan since feudal times 75% of the land was owned by big landlords. In the mid-1960s, democratic revolutionary elements coalesced to form the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and in 1973 deposed the king. The government that replaced him in turn was forced out in 1978. The military officers who took charge invited the PDP to form a new government under the leadership of Noor Mohammed Taraki.
The Taraki government proceeded to legalize labour unions, and to eradicate the cultivation of the opium poppy. Until then Afghanistan had been producing more than 70 percent of the opium needed for the world’s heroin supply. The government also abolished all debts owed by farmers, and began developing a major land reform programme. The CIA, assisted by Saudi and Pakistani military, launched a large scale intervention on the side of the ousted feudal lords, reactionary tribal chieftains, mullahs, and opium traffickers.
A top official within the Taraki government, Hafizulla Amin, believed to have been recruited by the CIA, seized power in September 1979. He executed Taraki, halted the reforms, and murdered, jailed, or exiled Taraki supporters as he moved toward establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state, but was overthrown two months later.
This happened prior to the Soviet military intervention. US National security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski publicly admitted that months before Soviet troops entered the country, the Carter administration was providing huge sums to Muslim extremists to subvert the reformist government.
In late 1979, the PDP government asked Moscow to send a contingent of troops to help ward off the mujahideen and foreign mercenaries, all recruited, financed, and well-armed by the CIA. Only after repeated requests from Kabul did Moscow agree to intervene militarily.
The Soviet intervention was an opportunity for the CIA to transform the tribal resistance into a holy war. Over the years the United States and Saudi Arabia expended about $40 billion on the war in Afghanistan. The CIA and its allies recruited, supplied, and trained almost 100,000 radical mujahideen from forty Muslim countries including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, and Afghanistan itself, amongst these the Saudi-born millionaire right-winger Osama bin Laden.
After a long and unsuccessful war, the Soviets evacuated the country in February 1989. It is generally thought that the PDP Marxist government collapsed immediately after the Soviet departure, but it retained sufficient popular support to fight on for another three years,
Upon taking over Afghanistan, the mujahideen, largely created and funded by the CIA, fell to fighting among themselves and within two years of the CIA’s arrival, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderland became the biggest producer of heroin in the world.
In Afghanistan itself, by 1995 an extremist strain of Sunni Islam called the Taliban, heavily funded and advised by the Pakistan ISI and the CIA fought its way to power and in 1999 the CIA was paying the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official.
Before answering that question it is necessary to remember that the terms "US", "american", "British" etc., are merely pseudonyms under which the hidden hands operate. While claiming to be fighting terrorism one of the reasons for the US to plunge deeper into Afghanistan is of course the oil and gas reserves of the Central Asian region. US oil companies acquired the rights to some 75 percent of these new reserves. A major problem was how to transport the oil and gas from the landlocked region. US officials opposed using the Russian pipeline or the most direct route across Iran to the Persian Gulf. Instead, they and the corporate oil contractors explored a number of alternative pipeline routes, across Azerbaijan and Turkey to the Mediterranean or across China to the Pacific.
The other reason? A decade before 9/11, Time magazine (18 March 1991) reported that the US were contemplating a military presence in Central Asia. The discovery of vast oil and gas reserves in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan provided the lure, while the dissolution of the USSR removed the one major barrier against pursuing an aggressive interventionist policy in that part of the world.
Well in advance of the 9/11 attacks the US government had made preparations to move against the Taliban and create a compliant regime in Kabul and a direct US military presence in Central Asia. The 9/11 attacks provided the perfect impetus, stampeding US public opinion and reluctant allies into supporting military intervention.
From the viewpoint of the reasons put forward to continue and escalate the war by the US, it is, has been and will continue to be a failure:
The Taliban is stronger than ever.
Opium cultivation has increased.
The Afghan-Pakistani border has not been secured.
The truth is in order to make World Government a reality the conquest of Eurasia is essential.
Two months after the end of the Soviet Union then U.S. Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz and his deputy in the Pentagon, Lewis Libby, produced a Defence Planning Guidance document for the years 1994–99, which contained the following passage:
. "Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat similar to that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavour to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient for general global power.......We must, however, be mindful that democratic change in Russia is not irreversible, and that despite its current travails, Russia will remain the strongest military power in Eurasia and the only power in the world with the capability of destroying the United States."
In its original and revised versions the Defense Planning Guidance document laid the foundation:
"That the U.S. (with its NATO allies) reserves the unquestioned right to employ military force anywhere in the world at any time for whichever purpose it sees fit and to effect "regime change" overthrows of any governments viewed as being insufficiently subservient to Washington and its regional and global designs.
Five years later former Carter administration National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinskiwrote an article which was a precis for his book "The Grand Chessboard", in which he identified the subjugation of Eurasia as Washington's chief global geopolitical objective, with the former Soviet Union as the centre of that policy and NATO as the main mechanism to accomplish the strategy.
.... "A wider Europe and an enlarged NATO will serve the short-term and longer-term interests of U.S. policy. A larger Europe will expand the range of American influence without simultaneously creating a Europe so politically integrated that it could challenge the United States on matters of geopolitical importance, particularly in the Middle East...."
Brzezinski presented a blueprint for surrounding Russia with a NATO cordon of military fortifications.
The preface to his book states,
"It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book....Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran...."The emergence of a truly united Europe - will require significant changes in the structure and processes of the NATO alliance. ...NATO, the principal link between America and Europe, provides not only the main mechanism for the exercise of US influence regarding European matters but the basis for the politically critical American military presence in Western Europe....Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played."
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the U.S. and NATO immediately moved in on Central Asia,
Four years after the publication of "The Grand Chessboard", the U.S. and NATO invaded Afghanistan four months after Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security and economic alliance with a military component.
The US invasion expanded into Central Asia where Russian, Chinese and Iranian interests converge and where the basis for their regional cooperation existed, while Western military bases were established in the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where they remain for the indefinite future.
The war in Afghanistan thus provided the opportunity to gain domination over all of South as well as Central Asia and to undermine and threaten the existence of the only regional security bodies - the SCO and CSTO (the Collective Security Treaty Organisation founded in 2002 by Russia, Kazakhstan, Krgystan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belarus)- which could counteract the drive for control of Eurasia.
The US set about ensuring that the fragmentation of the Soviet Union was final and irreversible and the fifteen new nations emerging from the ruins of the Soviet Union would not be allied in the loose association such as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) founded in the month of the Soviet Union's dissolution.
Three of the former Soviet republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, never joined the CIS and in 2004 became full members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, thus placing the U.S.-led military bloc on Russian borders.
That left eleven other former republics to be weaned from integration with Russia,
The central plan of the United States for the control of Eurasia and the world therefore is a Europe united under the EU and especially NATO strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia but not allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. European NATO allies are to assist Washington in preventing the emergence of "the most dangerous scenario...a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran".
Eight years later, in 2005, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline transporting Caspian Sea oil to Europe came online, followed by the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum natural gas pipeline and the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway, with the Nabucco natural gas pipeline next to be activated. The last-named is already ear-marked to include, in addition to Caspian supplies, gas from Iraq and North Africa.
Western-controlled pipelines traverse the South Caucasus - Azerbaijan and Georgia - to drive Russia and Iran out of the European and ultimately world energy markets, with a U.S. and NATO takeover of the armed forces of both nations.
On October 12 2009 the United States and India launched an eighteen-day military exercise and is evidence of unprecedented military cooperation between the two nuclear nations over the past few years. A partnership intended to supplant Russia as India’s decades-long main defense ally and arms supplier and to consolidate a U.S.-led military bloc in the Asia Pacific region aimed at containing China and furthering the encirclement of both that nation and Russia.
India as a nuclear power and the world’s second most populous nation, one bordering China and with historical strategic ties with Russia, is pivotal in Western designs to establish worldwide military superiority.
But the New Delhi-Washington axis is fraught with even grander designs and potentially catastrophic dangers. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization expanding into Eastern Europe over the last ten years and the upgrading of military contacts and partnership agreements, the world’s only military alliance spans five continents, the Middle East and the South Pacific, thus constituting history’s first international military alliance.
On October 9 the top military commander of U.S. European Command and NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, warned of conflict with Russia in the Arctic Circle. An Indian writer offered this concise perspective:
: “The arc of encirclement of Russia gets strengthened.... The ultimate objective of this is to neutralise the strategic capability of Russia and China..."
An Associated Press story of May 1, 2009 mentioned that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said:
“The Obama administration is working to improve deteriorating U.S. relations with a number of Latin American nations to counter growing Iranian, Chinese and Russian influence in the Western Hemisphere".
In the latest quadrennial National Intelligence Strategy report, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair claimed “Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea pose the greatest challenges to the United States’ national interests.”
The oft-used term "United States' national interests" should be recognised for what it really is. The interests involved have nothing to do with the American people or indeed with any other people other than those who have conceived and operate this plan, a macabre and malignant endeavour to subjugate everybody other than their compatriots in a net of intrigue through which millions have died and suffered. To really understand the situation it is necessary to have some knowledge of the Talmud and its offshoot the Protocols of Zion.
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