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| Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:52AM | | | | Peace With Taliban? commerce | Tags: new nations around Caspian Sea, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP, Amoco, Shell, Enron, Iran, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower, Atoms for Peace, Iranian hostages, state sponsor of terror, WMD, Kurds, Hezbollah, Dabhol, Uzbekistan, Halliburton, Taliban, Pakistan, Centgas, Texas, Zalmay Khalilzad, Project for the New American Century, Dick Cheney, John J. Maresca, ISI,
| | | | Commerce: Brzezinski wrote, “the most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.” (The Grand Chessboard)
The Soviet Union collapse in 1991 created several new nations around the Caspian Sea. Major US oil companies, including Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Unocal, BP, Amoco, Shell and Enron, invested billions in these Central Asian nations, bribing heads of state to secure equity rights in the huge oil reserves. US companies owned approximately 75% of the rights. However, Russia owned the pipelines and could control the quantity and price of transporting the oil. (New Yorker 7/9/01, Asia Times 1/26/02)
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