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- utopian0
I hope that it all works out for Afghanistan!
- lowimpakt0
Lots of the regions that are rich in resources/minerals that we need for our cars and iphones are politically unstable and rarely do the people benefit properly from the wealth.
- raf0
Great, a genuine, fair reason for the occupation!
Finally the conspiracy theories that the US were only in it for the drug production American Gangster style will be silenced!http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORL…
then...
http://www.darkgovernment.com/ne…
- flashbender0
it all makes a bit more sense now doesn't it.
- it's not like they were ever gonna use those minerals anyway. finders keepers right?lambsy
- exactly. They would not know what to do with 'em.flashbender
- utopian0
On the brighter side of things Nigeria has plenty of lead deposits!
- raf0
- PIZZA0
USA! USA! USA!
- ukit0
America, fuck yeah!
And we win in soccer too!!
- TheBlueOne0
This will be perfect for President Paul and his Teabagger Government:
Wall, meet writing.
- Ron Paul never supported sending out troops, was among 6 Republicans to oppose Iraq war. Has Jr different stance?raf
- You took my snark way too seriously.TheBlueOne
- Must be a Pavlov's dog reaction, I got used to your seriousness on these things :)raf
- I flit back and forth between seriousness and playful incredulity. Only way I can remain sane.TheBlueOne
- My point was that Rand doesn't seem to give a shit about strip mining in USAt, so why would he care about strip mining afghanistan.TheBlueOne
- in afghanistan.TheBlueOne
- And Rand being an outlier for what is normative US policy anyway.TheBlueOne
- TEABAGGERS UNITE®utopian
- pillhead0
"Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe."
Nice find but trust me if anyone is getting the money it will be America.
- ukit0
Just to play Devil's advocate, I would wait for more info before jumping to conclusions about America's evil motives.
Remember, the original Secret Reason for Afghanistan was to build a pipeline that would carry oil to the Pakistani ports? What happened to that?
And saying the invasion had nothing to do with terrorism, who are these guys we keep shooting in the border region every few weeks? I guess it could all be a big charade, but it seems weird to be targeting such a diplomatically sensitive area (technically part of Pakistan) if you weren't actually hunting terrorists. And Al Queda will even occasionally issue a statement saying, OK, you got one of our guys, or something to that effect.
Buy hey, maybe it's all true, and they are piping oil, drilling for heavy metal, and hunting Bin Laden, WHILE high on heroin. My only point is that we really have no idea.
- It's not the evil motives per se, it's the evil opportunism that's about to happen.TheBlueOne
- Well, it kind of matters which one right?ukit
- mydo0
- georgesIII0
Ukit our generation wasn't program by pro Taliban movies,
we believe we're free and that coincidences are only coincidences,
before that Taliban are bad paragdym was pulled over our eyes,
our parents called them freedom fighters, maybe that is what they've been fighting for three decades now,
maybe they just want us to leave them in peace,
afghanistan 40 years ago was developed, women worked had a viable future, guess what Happen,
I'll let Rambo give us a reminder that we're only seeing the taliban/mujahideen the way we see them now is because we've been "program" to act like that,
-- btw I'm not saying your wrong on your point, just completing it with my tired point of viewgeorgesIII
- TheBlueOne0
File under Alternate Theory, Propaganda:
" Some alert readers have pointed out that news of the big mineral find was reported in China in February ( http://www.chinamining.org/News/… ) and copper mining has been underway since 2007. Given the flurry of not so hot press a couple of days ago on the progress of the war in Afghanistan, is the New York Times being used as a mouthpiece to push a justification as to why we are there, and a superfically plausible rationale as to why we might be able to get the population on our side?"
- hmmm, seems like it was widely known, article mentions 1970s as when some mines were discovered.ukit
- ukit0
haha, Georges you'll be happy to know that I never saw Rambo III so I guess I escaped the brainwashing.
- monoboy0
Surely a good thing for Afghanistan long-term? Jobs, money, stability. All be it on shady circumstances. And if they were to legalise cash crops like weed and heroin, imagine the transformation.
(half joking of course)
- Amicus0
As Journalism this is pretty sub-par. Are BlackBerry's the only phones to use lithium? I hate when "Journalists" use a buzzword such as BlackBerry or iPad in a relatively unrelated article.
- 10g00