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This is Hamid Mir (Pakistani journalist) view point.

Russian and German oil companies had been trying to establish a pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Eastern Europe, but the American bombing of Yugoslavia blocked this plan. But Russia brokered a treaty with Iran for a pipeline route. China also began negotiating to build oil and gas pipelines from Kazakhstan.

It is obvious that not only Russia and Iran, but also China is unhappy about the growing American influence around the oil and gas resources of Central Asia. Americans have their troops not only in Afghanistan, but also in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. These troops are not there to fight terrorism. Their real task is to act as the 'pipeline police' of American oil companies. They landed in Afghanistan for a long stay and the danger cannot be ruled out that Afghanistan will become a battlefield for an oil war between Iran, Russia, and America.

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I watch the pickups and SUVs fly by me at 80 MPH on the backroads and am amazed so many people buy these low mileage dinosaurs eating gasoline at $1.75 a gallon for their 12 MPG rigs. The signs are all there, wars are in progress, countries are at edge with each other, shortages are here. All I see on TV auto shows are bigger and bigger gas guzzlers. Perhaps I am just out of the loop, but continuing to buy vehicles that have low MPG equates to supporting the terrorists IMHO.