Why is Afghanistan so important to the USA and allies?
Afghanistan
AquAzul asked:


Iraq was invaded because of oil but Afghanistan is not rich in oil.
What was the reason for the invasion of Afghanistan?

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  1. steam3
    May 31, 2008

    the us needed fighting experience for their troops so that they coud take on africa

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  2. dogtrh
    June 5, 2008

    Oil the reason we took Iraq. right. Then why havent we taken complete control of the oil industry there

    Afganistan maybe because of terrorists

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  3. zclifton2
    June 7, 2008

    Afghanistan is important for a number of reasons. One, we used Afghanistan to fight the Russian attempt to invade and occupy it. It worked out in the sense that Russian wasted years of time fighting a losing cause, we found a way to pay the Russians back for their meddling in Vietnam (this does not change the fact that Vietnam was a tragic mistake by America) but we won and then left without assuring the Afghanistan’s would find new power center and settle down to a normal situation.
    The result was the birth and nurturing of the Al Quaida and the fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan after we went home and enjoyed what we thought of as peace.

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  4. screaming monk
    June 9, 2008

    Hash Oil

    put that in your bong and smoke it …

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  5. crengle60
    June 10, 2008

    that’s where the TAliban have a strong hold because it’s tribal like Pakistan so al quida likes to work in those places

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  6. molly
    June 10, 2008

    They went there to find Osama Bin Laden a legitimate reason for war unlike the invasion of Iraq.

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  7. ADS
    June 11, 2008

    The route taken by USA to force Russians out of Afghanistan, is as follows——
    Tale ban–Pakistan—fundamentalists –extremism—9/11—Al Quaida—Osama Bin Laden—Afghanistan

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  8. shevek_v
    June 12, 2008

    It’s important as a potential route for oil pipelines from the Southern states of the former USSR.

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