   Thursday, 19 January 2012 08:03 By Dr Joseph Gerson, Truthout
| News Analysis   • Print   • Email  Bonn, Germany, December 4,
2011 - I want to thank the conference organizers for the
privilege of joining you. It has been ten years since 9/11,
when, believe it or not, Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld told
President Bush that invading Afghanistan would violate
international law, and Bush the Lesser responded that he wanted
to "kick some ass."  It's been ten years since we first warned
that one of Bush's motives was to circumvent Russian control of
Central Asian fossil fuels by building a natural gas pipeline
from Turkmenistan though Afghanistan, and now President Obama's
"Silk Road Initiative," which reaffirms that goal.  It has been
ten years and countless deaths between what was supposed to be a
short little war to liberate Afghans from their Taliban
oppressors to today's Afghan "entropy" swirling in "360 degrees
of chaos."(1)  And it's been more than a century that Afghans
have resisted being sacrificed i