Thread: $1 trillion dollars worth of rare mineral deposits discovered in Afghanistan!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?no_interstitial


This could dramatically transform the war, and the stakes, in Afghanistan.

...holy shit. that's uh...mixed news with uncertain consequences.

the article points out the obvious -- that the taliban and others might fight even harder to control these areas.

they aren't just fighting over sand anymore.

so we bombed them into the bronze age






but that's only because of all the brass casings, bomb shells, etc....

Very very clever.

cool...


you done?

I'm here all week, unless you pay me to leave.

sand

Hmm, I wonder if this is part of the CIA's PR campaign to get more support in Western Europe.

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/cia-afghanistan.pdf

From what I have seen and read this morning, this really isn't news. It is part of a strategy of selling the idea of staying in Afghanistan.