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.