Comment by morshu9001
6 days ago
Afghanistan has no oil. Iraq does, but the US showed no interest in taking it for decades. It was most likely pushed by our "greatest ally" there who also has no oil.
6 days ago
Afghanistan has no oil. Iraq does, but the US showed no interest in taking it for decades. It was most likely pushed by our "greatest ally" there who also has no oil.
The Kurds are our greatest ally in Iraq and they most definitely have lots of oil in addition to letting US operate on their territory in exchange for protecting the oil interests. I suppose you could say that's not us taking the oil but we still get value like we had taken the oil and provided fair market rate to host bases in exchange.
Saddam was already selling the oil at fair market rate.
I said fair market rate to host bases. Saddam was definitely not leasing us military at fair market rate in Iraq (or Syria for that matter, where Kurds also host US base).
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I highly suggest you look into the Afghan pipeline project.
I know about this one, it's eh. There are pipelines everywhere and no smoking gun.
The point is that there are certainly oil interests in Afghanistan. To act like there aren’t is inaccurate.
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