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i see obama as entirely boxed in by the fact of the american adventure in afghanistan.
another way: that prior involvement, a gift from the bush adminstration that, like so many others, keeps on giving, constitutes the parameters that shape all possibilities that present themselves.
so the larger objectives that may explain why the bush people involved themselves (in a manner of speaking) in afghanistan are not at this point relevant. the (largely deteriorating) situation on the ground is all that's relevant.
the pipeline has been largely discussed in literature on the geopolitics of oil, and was a topic of considerable debate/interest around the time the bush people launched this particularly unfortunate neocolonial adventure.
that there was a plausible connection between wanting to install a pro-american regime in afghanistan and plans for the construction of such pipeline(s) seems to go a lot further in explaining why the americans et al are now party to a civil war against the taliban than the other explanations that have been floated.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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