Why is the United States really in Afghanistan?

Please read my essay published 4/17/2013 in Dissident Voice:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/

Thanks!

(It's a fleshed out version of a blog post from last year @
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2012/12/why-are-we-in-afghanistan.html)