# What are exceptionally weird left wing conspiracy theories you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-exceptionally-weird-left-wing-conspiracy-theories-youve-seen/931268 "2021-01-23T07:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-exceptionally-weird-left-wing-conspiracy-theories-youve-seen/931268/70 "2021-01-26T11:41:46Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > > [@gdave](#): > > > > I’ve seen a number of inchoate assertions from left wingers that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was somehow about oil (despite Afghanistan not, y’know, actually having any) > > I’ve never seen this, got any cites? What I have seen was that tacking the Iraq part on was about oil, which is … not CT territory at all. [“No War for Oil!”](https://prospect.org/features/war-oil/) by Ken Silverstein in _The American Prospect_ (July 19, 2002) has a critical discussion of such claims. An article mentioned by Silverstein, [“Pipeline politics taint U.S. war”](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-03-18-0203180046-story.html) from the _Chicago Tribune_ (March 18, 2002) is also still available online. So is George Monbiot’s piece [“America’s pipe dream: A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian oil”](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/23/afghanistan.terrorism11) in _The Guardian_ (October 23, 2001). Right here on the SDMB, we had the thread “[It's a war for oil, Tony Benn tells protesters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-war-for-oil-tony-benn-tells-protesters/94106)” from November 2001; and Tony Benn’s article [“Tackle terror at its roots”](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/nov/12/britainand911.afghanistan) (also from _The Guardian_, November 11, 2001) is also still accessible. From Benn’s article in _The Guardian_: > [@](#): > > Perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether by our silence, we may be acquiescing in the perpetration of crimes against humanity in that those who have already suffered so much are now suffering even more because their land is urgently needed for a pipeline to get Caspian oil to the US market. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-exceptionally-weird-left-wing-conspiracy-theories-youve-seen/931268)._