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However, it is debatable whether the U.S. control of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as America's insistence that natural resource pipelines bypass territory of her rivals, is really worth the cost in lives and money. A demonstration that the U.S. continued using al-Qaeda operatives right until September 2001 -- and the possible implication that 9/11 occurred as a result of it -- it could bring to a naught the backing of the war in Afghanistan by most Americans, as it would their support for co-opting Central Asian republics. To be sure, as a result of current policies, America's largest rival in the region is being encircled, but can America continue to afford to squeeze the Russians while the U.S. economy lies in such dire straits? Also, is this ongoing "chess game" consistent with the Obama Administration's stated goal of a nuclear free world?
These are the hard questions all Americans must ask as they demand answers from their elected representatives on this very important espionage case.
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