Deal Between Devils Goes Bad, Stuff Happens

This deal -between Texas-based oil company Unocal and the (then) rulers of Afghanistan, otherwise known as the Taliban-to build an oil pipeline across Afghanistan and, with the aid of Turkmenistan and the Uzebeks, to the Caspian- eventually fell apart. There were horrible consequences.

Back in Houston, the Taliban was learning how the "other half lives," and according to The Telegraph, "stayed in a five-star hotel and were chauffeured in a company minibus." The Taliban representatives "...were amazed by the luxurious homes of Texan oil barons. Invited to dinner at the palatial home of Martin Miller, a vice-president of Unocal, they marveled at his swimming pool, views of the golf course and six bathrooms." Mr. Miller, said he hoped that UNOCAL had clinched the deal.

So you know what happened after that Deal went south.

It's always somebody's fucked-up Deal that gets children killed.

It's not about God or Allah or Freedom or Democracy anything else- it's about the goddamned Deal- and no matter what happens someone is bound to throw a motherfuck tantrum when it doesn't go how they'd wished.
Always.
Always.

Do you remember the Dubai Ports World 'scandal' and how that deal was supposedly quashed?
What a pile of crap.
Deals that large do not simply "go away."
Instead they change form and scurry for dark corners- as seen in the NYT.
Catch it now before it vanishes again.

Somebody here owes somebody at DubaiCo.- and they owe bigtime.
It sure looks like Dubai intends on cashing in their IOU.

One way or another.