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he wrote quite a bit about energy and I was annoyed by some of the simplistic comments that came up (probably the "we invaded Afghanistan to build the pipeline" story got me to write first!)

Methinks you were naive about the reality sense of the neocons back then...

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 01:00:53 PM EST
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these were commenters of the left too happy to see oil pretexts behind everything.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 01:03:58 PM EST
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That's not what I mean. I too don't think that oil was the prime motivation behind the Afghanistan invasion. But you dismissed the story entirely on the basis of its lack of economic (and political) reality, if I remember correctly (itr has been a few years since this came up last) -- while there were people pursung it in high-level talks, just like others still pursue the Nabucco fata morgana today.

*Lunatic*, n.
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by DoDo on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 01:43:48 PM EST
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With a quick search in the ET archives, I only found this -- only problem, the sceptic in the discussion is redstar not you. Nevertheless, there is a priceless quote from a Clinton admin official posted by Montereyan.

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by DoDo on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 01:57:59 PM EST
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