Gareth Porter and Eric Margolis discuss Gen. McChrystal’s ‘government in a box‘ plan for Afghanistan, military actions that are motivated more by a desire to influence US public opinion than to achieve strategic gains, Obama’s secondary role in formulating foreign policy, the Pentagon’s exaggeration of ‘rogue state’ threats in order to justify an enormous ‘defense’ budget, the influence of oil pipeline politics on US policy in Central Asia and how the Pakistani government’s partial acquiescence to US pressure may inspire a military coup
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