For a while there was a myth about oil (none in any significant amounts) then uranium and other minerals (all to inaccessible).
But it is a mineral rich nation, if they could ever get their act together http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/05/18/184775139/Afghan-Mineral-Treasures-Stay-Buried-Hostage-To-Uncertainty On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:32 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What natural resources in Afghanistan are we so interested in????? > > There's nothing in that FSM forsaken country except bombs and poppies. > > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > "No pulling out means ending combat ops and bumming home our troops > > that's pulling > > out" > > > > Personally, I don't think we're ending combat operations anywhere. They > > might be labelled special ops or given some other newspeak name in order > to > > divert attention. > > > > We are an imperialistic country right now vying to control the natural > > resources while prevent Russia and China from doing the same. > > > > Of course, I could be wrong. > > > > J > > > > - > > > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad > reputation. > > - Henry Kissinger > > > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:364721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
