# Why the Hell are we still in Afghanistan?

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**Created:** [September 17, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-are-we-still-in-afghanistan/510416 "2009-09-17T06:10:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-hell-are-we-still-in-afghanistan/510416/58 "2009-09-21T21:21:27Z")

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> [@Camus](#):
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> While China may want some kind of pipeline through Afghanistan, given that any oil or gas deposits are in Asian countries around the Caspian Sea, does the West really have a pipeline interest in Afghanistan?

Also, who’d be stupid enough to build one there given the history of the region?

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