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The Great Game for Central Asian Oil

Taimur Rahman April 5, 2003

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#9 Posted by jay on April 6, 2003 6:16:54 am
GREAT MUSLIM SUCCESS,

The only great thing that ever happene to the muslims is that allah seem to have left oil under the ground they tread. After reading the the book and learning it by rort, all that is left is the conspiract theiries. All of the bloody damn iraqui oil, at the peak of its current production will amont to only 16 billion dollars, a small peanut in global economis terms, noting that it is 20 percet of Ge revenue and less than 2 percent of the bloody indian GDP.

The wretched jihadists can burn as well in their oil and get to the 72 houris, for all that I care.
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#8 Posted by arjun_m on April 5, 2003 11:19:29 pm
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#7 Posted by nazarhayatkhan on April 5, 2003 11:19:28 pm

The mankind is just one.

And everyone wears on top a thin layer of nationality, belief or race.

The moment these layesrs get peeled off, it is same person underneath everywhere. And we get down to the basic values of good and bad as perceived by the human conciousness.

I agree with tahmed32.
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#6 Posted by tahmed32 on April 5, 2003 8:33:05 pm
Mr. Taimur: You could have been excused if you had written this article at least 30 years ago. At that time there were indeed many people like you (many could be found in Lahore campuses, chain smoking bagla cigarettes which they carried inside Gold Leaf packets and carrying some book full of big Leninist words like the ones you use). So you would have been excused as being a member of that club of pseudo-intellectual weirdos.

Now, you are like a Coelocanth - the fish that everyone thought had been extinct for millions of years but which magically turned up off the coast of madagascar, still breathing bagla smoke and hot air and big words about Monopoly Capitalists, its Running Dogs, and Big Games.
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#5 Posted by SameerJB on April 5, 2003 5:02:20 pm
World is full of viruses, bacteria, parasites and blood thisrsty animals. Some do it due to instinct and some smart animals do it to benefit from it. One thing they all share and that is the availability of fertile growth media to multiply and survive.

Afghans are one such growth media who can be fooled by anybody because they consider themselves martial and brave. It is well known fact that sex supression leads to outletting pressure in bizarre, disorderly, agressive, machsismo, risk taking and brave behavior. The sexual supression fortified with virtuous Islamic ehtics turned many tribal societies into haphazardly aggressive and made them vulnerable to the exploitation. This is the tragedy of Afghanistan. Instead of blaming Russia, Zia, America, Britain and Pitcairn Island of south pacific, they must reevealuate their own cultural/ religious practices.

They must come to understand the inherent weaknesses that made them easy pray for all kind of parasitic ideas from outside. Why are they so open to be fooled by communists, capitalists, colonialists, Islamist, wahabist, Sufist, Deobandist, monarchist etc etc. All they remember is the pride in defeating British, defeating this and defeating that. There is more to a people than just obsessed with defeating everything and everybody. Why don`t they realize that in order to inflict a minor defeat on an enemy, they are ready to lose everything -education, healthcare, roads, bridges, colleges, schools.

Afghanistan was not the only country with Russian soldiers on its soil. The Poles, Czeck, Romanians, Bulgarians, East Germans all had Russian troops and they hated them. But none of them was stupid like Afghans to sacrifice everything for kicking them out or service to religion. Plenty of Zia-likes were present in the neighboring west Europe who would have loved to see Poles, Bulgars, Hungarians and others take up arms against the Soviets. The churches would have loved it but guess what: They were not stupid like Afghans and so called ``our brave traditions``.

Despite all the current bloody history, they have not learnt any lesson. A nations/ government that can sacrifice everything just to follow one Islamic ethic - namely once a promise, always steadfast to honor that promise under all circumstances as int he case of giving refuge to Osama Bin Laden. They remained steadfast in not handing OBL to USA and in the process ost their government and brought hardships to Muslims everywhere. But promise is a promise to them. Since they have promised to defend Islam and supress sexulaity and other strict ethics, they are likely to be continue playing the role of cannon fodder for many more years to come.

Therefore, first blame Afghans, then Islam, then Zia, communists, USA, capitalists, colonialists, imperialists and neo-coloialists. The world will always be ready to spread red carpets for stupids who can not distinguish stupidity from bravery.
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#4 Posted by hamidm2 on April 5, 2003 5:02:20 pm
what sheer nonsense!.......... all these conspiracy theories don`t amount to hill of beans ........ the fact of the matter is that this is a struggle between order and disorder, between civilizaiton and primitivism, between the right to pee standing up and being forced to squat, between night robes and pants with two legs, between tooth paste and twigs, utensils and fingers, camels and bullet trains, cable tv and jumaa sermons, guilt free sex and superstition, single malt whiskey and camel whey, democracy and nepotism............ unfortunately, the white man might be able to liberate us from temporal tyrants but who will rid us of our spiritual demons ...........
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#3 Posted by leila on April 5, 2003 5:02:20 pm
Through an attempt at being provocative in rising the neorealist foreign policy of one hegemonic state is really not enough.. The central Asia dimensions of this policy and the Asia flank -- would be conducted by any state given the hegemonic power that it has at the momnet the responsibilities inmho is people power and vesting our interest within a stronger international system which can override such imperial unilateralism. Game Theory - the means and the ends at its best ...however what is lacking is substance from the South as well as the `non aligned` north for an alternative and more just international society...
If milions can be spent on liberating freedom fries then so to can these millions be utilised to eleviate world hunger, famine, disease etc etc...
the macro is a mirror image of the micro,
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#2 Posted by Ras on April 5, 2003 4:18:08 pm

This is certainly a great game of world domination.

I do not completely agree with your concluding paragraphs but

am willing to accept the negative while thinking positive.


Ras
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