English 101
Yaolee Chen
Glenn Simshaw
The Research Project
The War in Afhanistan---
Not as seen on the TV
A title by the picture
said, "America Is Under Attacked". The picture was about the attack of the
World Trade Center that a craft hit at the top of the building; and, after
a while, another craft hit at the middle of the building. The
building (the World Trade Center) was caught on a fire and was burned into
ashes. According to the news and media had said for the following months,
a terrorist Osama bin Laden had paid and had trained the piolets to destory the
World Trade Center located in New York in the United States. So the eyes
of the American public had focused on the travels of Osama bin Laden, and the
U.S. had declared the war against Afghanistan since. But, was the
arressing of the terrorists the very reason of our wars in the Middle East
today. The cause of our war was not really so simple. The arressing
of Osama bin Laden was simply an excuse of the U.S. war against
Afghanistan. The very reason of our war was not to arrest this poor guy
Osama bin Laden whose thinking was just too radical.
The chief reason of our
war in Afghanistan was to gain the right to use the shortest oil pipline,
connecting Turkmanistan and Persian Gulf, that must pass the land of
Afghanistan. By 1998, the U.S. had supported the independence of Taliban;
by which help, the Taliban had gained the 95% of the political powers in
Afghanistan. In 1998, Taliban gave 85% of the rights of the using oil
pipline to UNCOL, and it angered the U.S. The U.S. did , firstly, accuse
UNCOL a forced labor organization, by which law suit in the U.S. in 2000, UNCOL
lost a huge amount of money. Second, the U.S. was waiting for the chances
to kick out Taliban from the political stage in Afganistan. Finally, the
attack of the World Trade Center gave the U.S. a chance to declare the war in
Afghanistan. So, the arressing Osama bin Laden was not a chief cause
of our war in the Middle East, but the shortest oil pipleline was the very
reason of our war in Afghanistan.
The 17 miles alone, from
Black Sea to Capsian Sea, produced 1.7 barrons of oil daily in
2002. Most of the oil piplines in Black Sea were occupied by the
British oil companies already; yet, the American oil piplines still could be
found in Capsian Sea, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbanistan, Takistan, and
Kahzakahistan. The sources of the oil were these countries, connecting
with the south of Russia, Xing Jiang in China and with the east to North
Korea. The oil industries in these areas were very costly: a little
mainting on the oil pipelines might coast millions of dollars. And the
value of a short length of oil pipeline was worthy billions of dollars.
When the U.S. was given little rights to use the shortest oil pipeline in
Afghanistan, the U.S. had to spend more money on transporting the oil from
Turkmanistan to Persian Gulf by land; and, it increased the cost value of the US
purchased oil, eventually, the U.S. would not buy the expansive oil. An
alternative way in the palce of accepting the facts was to get the cheap oil
with strong military power. The cause of our wars in the Middle East,
today, was really for the oil, not as what we heard from the media. The
catching Osama bin Laden was an excuse of our war in the Middle
East.
The Congress had passed
the decision to war against Taliban as soon as the next day of the attack.
Mullah Abdollah Oma the President of Afghanistan did polagize for the attack,
and he would pay to the Arabians for arressing Osama bin Laden following the
event of the attack. And the Authority of Plestina Arafat Yesser donated
blood to the victims of the World Trade Center, and Arafat Yesser would
cooperate with the U.S. to arrest the terroists also. But the decision of
the White House made little changes since. The war began on October 7th,
2001, less than a month after the attack. The world's first Themobaric
bomb was creatd by the U.S. by the end of the year. In the early of March,
the U.S. used offensive weapons in Sha-e-Cot Valley, the fighters in the caves
were all killed. Two weeks later, the Themobaric bomb of 2,000 pounds was
dropped in Gardez; the civilians of Afghanistan included, a great number of
human life was killed by the bomb. An offensive AnaConda operation
followed the Themobaric bom in Afghanistan. Taliban and the national
government of Afghanistan regrouping together for survival that a conference
held in Lebanon in the late-March, Arafat yesser was to have an Araba-Israeli
fire-cese-forever plan, but Arafat end out with the Israeli invadion in
Plestinia, started on March 29th in 2002. By the end of April, Israelis
whom the U.S. had militaryly supported did not occupied as much cities as the
U.S. had planned. The British-U.S. allies invade the south Afghanistan on
April 30th. In the early May, the British troops marssarcred the civilians
in Ghost, Wazristan, and Gardez. The U.S. troops faced the hostile in
Wazristan and Gardez sympthetic to that they had a month ago with Taliban.
In the middle of May, the congress passed 5 millions dollars for the
spend on the military weapons in the Middle East under the request of
President Bush. Regardless the anti-war protests among the American
people, President Bush stood out his strong position to war against Iraq in his
speech on January 1st, 2003. Because of the civilians of Afghanistan,
women and children particularly, were kiled in the war, I considered
our war in Afghanistan was not only for the human rights. But
the war was a decision that the U.S. had made earlier before the attack of
the World Trade Center. The U.S. was not just under attack. The U.S.
was attacking the countries that were handicaps to support the U.S. oil
interest.
The war was not as we seen
on the media. On Feburuary 10th, 2002, the U.S. reported only 5 civilians
were killed in Afghanistan while the local news of Afghanistan said the U.S. had
destroied the whole school. Two different stories were tolen on each
side. Other anti-American feeling could be traced form the following
reports:
On April 18th, a Swiss
piolet flied a craft and hit at the mist of the Financial Center of Italy in
Milan. The nbc4.tv reported in the morning as I read from the computer was
that the attack was similar to what we had on September 11 and was very likely
sent by Dazube, the headquarter of Al-Alquada. And President Bush
considered carefully about the event. The same day in the afternoon, the
reports from the internets said, it probably was an accident by the Swiss
piolet. And the news of the next day said, a Swiss piolet had just hit at
the building by accident. And the news continued to say that the piolet
was but a mental disordered. I wondered if the web page of nbc4.tv had
tolen a valid story.
A twisting story by the
U.S. media was very possible. Few days before the accident in Milan on
April 12th, the President of Venezuela Chavez was resigned under the protest of
25,000 civilians of Venezuela. Some protestors were injured or gun-shot by
the policemen of the American Society in Venezuela. Two days later, the
news said that the president of Venezuela returned with a good smile. From
the story, I could tell that the U.S. predomainet role was rejected by the
people of Venezuela.
On April 17th, Colin
Powell's Mission end without the withdraw from Betheleham and Ramallah two
cities. I think the decision of Colin's must had angered the
Arabians, and the Islamic Fundamentalists particullary. So, I think the
attack on the Financial Center of Italy in Milan was done by the terrorists on
April 18th. But the news of the 19th said that "Milan crash not seen as
terror attack".
Since
the attack of the World Trade Center, the U.S. Media had failed its function to
tell the true stories. The U.S. marssarcred in Afghanistan, the Israeli
invadion the Palestinian areas with the U.S. military supports. The
American Society resigned the President of Venezuela who had secretly increased
the oil sold to U.S. since the time of Israeli invadion in Palestine, a
time that Iraq stop selling the oil to the U.S. The U.S. media tried to
say the attack of the Italy Financial Center was not done by the terrorists, and
as if our U.S. troops were still welcomed by the people of the areas in the
Middle East. In our war in Afghanistan as well, the U.S. media had failed
to tell you what really happened in March and April in 2002 that the land of
Afghanistan was a laboratory of the U.S. military weapons. Or the titles
of the related reports were placed in the middle of the sections on the web
pages that the readers in general would not find the roots of our wars in
the Middle East if they were in a hurry. A war of self-defence was
very hard to understand becuse a getting the cheap oil was not really an
issue that the Americans could not live without. The same economic reason
was the wars we want to have with Iraq and with North Korea in the very near
future. So, not as we seen on the TV, the U.S. was not
under attack but was attacking the oil
countries.