Dishonesty pays. Both AGW and Afghanistan are examples.

Cap and trade, subsidized development of solar and wind power, and other such irrational measures will all make fortunes for the politically connected. Its the money and power. Screw the evidence and the science. Its all irrelevant.

And as for Afghanistan? The conflict there is a gold mine for the Pakistanis. So long as the infection persists in Waziristan cleaning it out of Afghanistan will accomplish nothing–the infection will return once the antibiotic treatment is stopped. In the meantime Pakistan is getting a hell of a lot of US aid which they wouldn’t be getting without that conflict. They aren’t really our allies, they’re playing the Taliban off against the US. They don’t want either side to win, so they refuse to let us strike within their territories that they claim THEY can’t actually control.

In the meantime the suckers have been conned into playing Russian Roulette … with an automatic pistol.