“Afghanistan has strategic resources…valuable resources, maybe worth on the order of a trillion dollars or more, America wants US corporations to exploit these things,” Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Sunday. “The war in Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to with [Osama] Bin Laden, nothing to do with the Taliban, nothing to do with al-Qaeda, it was about exploiting and controlling a strategic part of the world,” Lendman said. Afghanistan is near Russia and China and “the idea is to control as many countries close to Russia and China’s borders, to put US bases there, to encroach on them, to target the heartland of these countries with the ultimate aim of regime change in both countries,” he contended. A new report by the New York Times on Friday said US President Barack Obama has secretly signed an order that allows US troops to be involved in combat operations in Afghanistan throughout 2015.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:30 +0000
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