It will take years to set up the infrastructure for harvesting Afghanistan's 
resources.  This would require a stable government and lots of investment to 
mine the ores out of the country.



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
>
> Last I heard it was lithium.  I guess the world morality is to steal the 
> resources from these countries?  IOW, if they won't be "civilized" and 
> sell it to us we just go in and take them over?  Sounds rather primitive 
> to me but I would never give the elite much credit for being very 
> evolved.  After all their main focus is material gain. Their just a few 
> vibes above the astral plane. 
> 
> This was  tried that with Vietnam who had rich resources too.  They won 
> and now they are trading partners.  But it appears the lesson wasn't 
> learned.  Apparently Gen Xers want to play global chess too.  What a 
> dumb planet.  What a dumb species.
> 
> Don Miller wrote:
> > Also Afganistan has the worlds largest untapped copper reserve.  The 
> > companies that are able to and want to exploit it are of the US or it's 
> > allies but they have found the country politically difficult.  China is 
> > there waiting otherwise and last I heard was building a railroad to 
> > transport the ore to China.  I havent kept up on the latest details of this 
> > angle, things I heard months or years ago, but it could be a motive.  
> > Copper is a basic necessity for society like oil, and the near term 
> > reserves are insufficent for the growing world population.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...>
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 6:24:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to End the War in Afghanistan
> >
> >   
> > Of course not you fool! We were there strictly to build a pipeline for Bush 
> > n Co.! <snicker>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal. net>
> > To: FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com
> > Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 11:48:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How to End the War in Afghanistan
> >
> >   
> > Do you seriously believe that we were ever there to get rid of the Taliban?
> >
> > Mike Dixon wrote:
> >   
> >> So, why waste a whole year of expenses and lives? Why not just pull out... 
> >> now! If you want to hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban, why wait till 
> >> next year? 
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