Gore Vidal: ‘We don’t know where we’re going’ “The United States does not have an interest in Afghanistan. The Bush family does. Oil. As does Vice-President Cheney and Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld. We have a bunch of oilmen running the country. It will be like Vietnam in the sense that it is unwinnable. I suppose we could put in a government in Kabul, but as the guerrilla warfare continues and we have no national interest, we’ll drift away; though Bush can keep the war going until 2004, so he can be re-elected president.” Guardian UK