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? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
