A - I'm sure the point of the article was summarized in the first paragraph:

"A little publicised agreement signed in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad last week has highlighted once again the real motives behind the US military intervention into Afghanistan -- access to and domination of Central Asian oil and gas."

B - Nothing to do with the point of the article, and you're right. Life ain't fair. We know that. I think we all know that. What we may not be aware of, though, is that we should

C - Thank God it's not fair. If it were fair, we would be eating rice, dying at 45, and glad of it. There are more of them than us, and they are just as wonderful as humans as we.

The sense of entitlement many of us have is just that - a sense. No merit to it.

Arf