The grand chessboard

Asif Zardari and General Musharraf having no love lost between them have to wait for the right time before they can part ways. Zardari faced cases of money laundering and Musharraf has a long list of questionable deeds of the past nine years to account for. They are destined to remain in restrains until the imperious Empire (US) accomplishes its agenda in the region.
And what is the US agenda? It is not purging the Taliban or nabbing bin Laden in Afghanistan. It is not about introducing democracy or ensuring the rights of women. This hoax must be rubbished. It is about plunder of oil and mineral resources in the Central Asian States (CAS). Unfortunate are the countries having enormous natural resources and poor defence, for the decadent empire will fabricate a charge against them to divest them of their possessions. Afghanistan's misfortune is that it is the gateway to CAS riches. Union Oil of California (Unocal) had at one time signed a contract to lay the pipeline from Turkmenistan to Karachi through Afghanistan. A group of Taliban was invited to visit Unocal headquarters in Texas (Bush constituency) and stayed there as company's guests. But Laden threw spanner in the works by warning the Taliban for having themselves sold cheap hence US animus against him. It is a misconception that had the Taliban handed over Laden to the US, it could have prevented the invasion on Afghanistan. US war is all about oil and against those acting as impediments in its pursuit.
Zbigniew Brzezinsky of Carter era, in his study The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geo-strategic Imperatives, noted how the world's energy consumption would increase, therefore, whoever controlled the Caspian oil and gas would control the world economy. Deeply linked with oil business, Cheney-Bush duo and the neo-cons picked up the thread where Brzezinsky left off in 1997.  Bush's bluster that the next 9/11 type attack on US would come from FATA, which to the bewilderment of many, PM Gilani has recently parroted, is sheer nonsense. Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11 neither do they now possess the ability to embark upon such an adventure. 9/11 was an inside job by the intelligence networks, therefore, no serious inquiry was conducted. Had one been conducted, the perfidious US-Israel nexus would have stood blazing on the top, according to Gore Vidal in his book Dreaming war.