Afghanistan

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> > > With the recent jirgha loya election of Hamid Karzai and the rapid

> > > construction of a new oil pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan,

> > > the following message becomes still more urgent.

> > >

> > > Please forward this message to whomever you can.

> > Amoghalila das

> >

> > Can you explain why should we do that?

>

> Excellent question.

 

In the vacuum while waiting for Amoghalila prabhus answer may I venture to

speculate?

 

The USA is very keen to ensure that oil flows freely to allow their economy

to flourish. It was clear that the gulf war was all about securing oil

supply. America wants oil and wants it bad, as one banner to encourage the

troops going to Kuwait said 'kick their ass and get their gas'.

 

So if Pakistan has this much treasured oil pipeline, the US will conceivably

do anything to defend it. So if India does go to war with Pakistan, the US

could conceivably back Pakistan instead of India, and things could get

nasty.

 

Of course what that means to us is another question.

 

Your servant

Samba das

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Dear Samba Prabhu, Amoghalila Prabhu and other conspiracy theory

advocates,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

> It was clear that the gulf war was all about securing oil

> supply.

 

Is it? I don't buy it. Looks to me like just another foolish conspiracy

theory that, for reasons that elude me, some of our devotees seem

inclined to be taken in by. This war was not about securing oil supply.

This war was about getting the guy that knocked down the world trade

center out of the blue. Of course, add to that the whole world hated the

Taliban for knocking down the Buddha statues, promoting Heroine

production, etc., and you've got a lot of support for going in and

ousting the guys.

 

> America wants oil and wants it bad, as one banner to encourage the

> troops going to Kuwait said 'kick their ass and get their gas'.

 

I see. So that proves it. Conspiracy. Must be. Besides, you seem to

believe it, so why not the whole world? It was a CIA plot. Crash the

planes into the WTC, get the oil out of Afganistan. Makes perfect sense.

 

> So if Pakistan has this much treasured oil pipeline, the US will

conceivably

> do anything to defend it. So if India does go to war with Pakistan,

the US

> could conceivably back Pakistan instead of India, and things could get

> nasty.

 

Please. "could conceivablyif" and you begin the whole conclusion of

this wonderful diatribe with the word "So" ... meaning your conclusion

is based on your rock solid belief about that pipe line conspiracy

theory.

 

And all of this is based on the idea, unspoken, that Prabhupada said a

world war would start between Pakistan and India, and that the US would

back Pakistan and the Soviet Union (which by the way doesn't exist

anymore) would back India, and It would quickly escalate to be a war

between America and the Soviet Union.

 

Here's the reality. There is no Soviet Union. Prabhupada said the war

could be averted by book distribution. The war that Prabhupada spoke

about won't happen because there is no Soviet Union anymore. America

will not bomb the Soviets. The Soviets will not bomb America. The war

that Prabhupada predicted has long ago been averted.

 

There will, of course, be many wars. Prabhupada said war was the result

of wholesale animal slaughter. (I have all the quotes to back up my

evidence, by the way). Animal slaughter is still going on. So there will

be other wars. But rest assured, if India and Pakistan have a nuclear

war, which I personally think is unlikely - but they will continue

fighting as they have for 40 years - no major superpower will back

either country.

 

Sleep well. Chant your rounds.

 

Worry about terrorist dirty bombs going off in NYC, or some other big

terrorist events. That's something that may indeed happen.

 

> Of course what that means to us is another question.

 

Right.

 

Your servant,

Vipramukhya Swami