Pipelineistan

What lovely country, gentle rolling hills which change colors, even lighting, with the seasons.  Like the great pacific northwest in USA, natural predators are few, and like California, topography and climate offer wonderful conditions for farming and light industry.  But there is much more; just as new Zealand seems to replicate the climate and topography of the benefits of the west coat of USA, or say Chile, so do these lands.

Due to bad government these lands and the people have suffered grievously, but now freedom is eking in, and the benefits are growing.  Lucky too that they lie between fantastic oil riches and China, a fantastic market.  These lands one writer is calling pipelineistan, since these Central Asian Republics are enjoying prosperity like Alaska as the pipeline was built.  Will stability, tourism and development be far behind?

These countries are wonderful lands, just as USA is today.  But USA can as easily end up suffering centuries of distress, in spite of the beauty of our lands, for exactly the same reason these lands did.  These people consider China a great benefactor, since they actually buy oil and pay for pipelines.  These people see what USA is doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and want no part of it.  Time to declare victory, come home, and let our business people bring prosperity behind the peace.

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