Military Resistance 9A 2 : "Why We Fight"

January 2, 2011 - ...What the United States wants is to establish India as a great power in the region to counterbalance China, and at the same time try to beat Pakistan into an obedient lesser partner. The overall goal is to continue instability thus favoring a continuing military presence...Another factor is the TAPI gas pipeline. On December 13, 2010 the presidents of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, along with India’s petroleum minister, signed an
inter-governmental agreement pledging to construct a 1,735-kilometer natural gas pipeline connecting all four states. The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline would supply 33 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas a year from the Dauletabad gas fields to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan’s volatile southern provinces, according to the semi-official Turkmenistan.ru website. In doing so, Kabul could reap billions.
The TAPI Turkmenistan-India pipeline, by the way, will parallel the Herat - Kandahar highway which goes through Delaram, where the US Marines have a new base! How thoughtful. All of the area must "be controlled" for the benefit of India while elsewhere in Afghanistan US troops are mixing it up with Pakistan-supported resistance fighters. .That’s why we fight, and it has nothing to do with al Qaeda which is but a minor distraction compared to the big-power strategies that involve the US, India and China, and natural gas...

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