9/11 enabled this

Timetable Abandoned: U.S. And NATO To Wage Endless War In Afghanistan
by Rick Rozoff*

http://www.voltairenet.org/article167505.html

quote:

"From Cornwall to Mongolia, Kazakhstan to Illinois, Sweden to Wales, Poland to Georgia, Lithuania to India and beyond, NATO and the Pentagon are strengthening military partnerships and networks around the Afghan war. Neither Washington nor Brussels is in a hurry to abandon a conflict that has allowed both to globalize their military roles."

other quote

"they have forced themselves into the heart of Eurasia"

that's what it's all about folks

the grand chessgame, enabled by a new pearl harbour, 9/11

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