Pepe Escobar has started a series on so -called ‘Great Game’.

Oil Pipelines Are The ‘New Great Game – see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/24/oil-pipelines-are-the-new_n_178715.html

I agree – the disconnect between getting climate change under control policy and planning for long-term war planning is beyond absurd.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13049

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

If anything, recalling the characteristics of insurgencies such as the one the US failed to quell in Vietnam, one would think the estimate of forces arrayed against US/NATO is under-reported – nor is it certan that Afghanistan government forces can be relied upon.

More sinister and historically familiar motives on the part of the US from the benefits of an ongoing conflagration in the region are examined in the above article:

“An unspoken subtext to the Times and Journal reportage is the continued utilization of these terrorist networks–by the CIA and U.S. Special Operations Command–for covert war against Iran–even as the Obama administration seeks Tehran’s assistance in battling the Taliban and al-Qaeda. As investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported last July in The New Yorker the Pentagon funded the narcotrafficker Baluchi-based Jundullah organization to attack security personnel inside Iran.

While an open secret in Washington, Obama’s new product roll-out in the form of an ill-conceived plan to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaeda and the Taliban has everything to do with the construction of the $7.6 billion dollar “Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline that would cross western Afghanistan east of Herat and advance south through Taliban-controlled territory towards Pakistani Balochistan province,” according to Asia Times.”

While Obama smokescreens in Strasbourg with platitudes about denuclearising and reducing climate change, (speech here http://enduringamerica.com/2009/04/04/nato-summit-day-2/), the great game for oil and other treasure is on indefinitely. War is one of the most polluting of all disgraceful human activities – and even more ironical when the subtext of the current US operation is to control yet more greenhouse gas producing hydrocarbon resources.