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Advantages: Scenic in parts. Rugged terrain Disadvantages: Current military campaign. Political instability
Just about the whole world has recently been inundated with news reports coming out of a country which was formerly largely ignored.Afghanistan, a land-lacked country in south-western Asia, covers an area of 652,225 km2, and almost 75% of the land is mountainous. The highest peak is Istora Nol at 24,458 feet a.s.l.
The climate is best described as generally semi-arid steppe, with very wide regional variations; the climate varies distinctly between lowlands and highlands. In the mountainous north-east there are dry extremely cold winters with temperatures falling to as low as –14.8°F in the Hindu Kush. In the desert in the south-west, there is less than 3 inches of rainfall annually and summer temperatures can exceed 95°F in that area.
The major cities and towns in Afghanistan include Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar ...
Advantages: Pakistan and China gets a New pipeline attached to the Trans Caspian Pipeline Disadvantages: The West gets increased terrorism
In order to determine whether this military action was justified or not, I think we need to cover some previous background on this subject.
The core issue for bombing Afghanistan was the search for Bin Laden in the post 911 era. Whether the Taliban was wicked or not, poor regimes are hardly rare in many countries in the region.
Geopolitically speaking Russia had spent 20 years fighting its "Vietnam" in Afghanistan before pulling out, and since 1991 had reverted from Communism to Capitalism alongside China.
Great efforts were made by the International Community to ensure that both Russia and China could be involved into the international Capital system, where they had previously not existed.
One of those efforts was to have a pipeline built through Afghanistan by Unocal, GE Electric, Bechtel, Shell and BP. The pipeline was to ...
