$1 Trillion in Minerals Discovered in Afghanistan

The Corner - NRO ^ | 6-14-10 | Daniel Foster

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’m sorry. I put the wrong date on this. It actually was published 6-13-10 — yesterday.

[TSgt]

The hysterical knee-jerk left will scream, “we are raping their minerals like we are raping Iraq’s oil!”

Still waiting on that oil...

[Common Sense 101]

“War for Minerals” /s

[edzo4]

No blood for Soil, LOL

[G Larry]

Bet on Pakistan, Russian, & China.

The EPA will stick it’s nose in, pretending jurisdiction, and completely screw any chance for U.S. development.

Obama will have us busy, scooting out the back door, leaving it to bandits.

[listenhillary]

Making a messy situation even messier in todays world. Fund terrorists buying a hybrid car or an Ipad. How cool is that?

[Wolfie]

People are benefitting, just not us.

[newfreep]

"Raping gaia! Raping mother earth!

LOL - they are so predictable and yet believe they are so intelligent.

[Phlap]

“Discovered”? The spin never stops. In the 80’s I watched a NGS show on Afghanistan and it talked about the countries mineral and oil riches and the fact that firewood was the leading form of heat. Nothing has changed. It is a landlocked Godforsaken country and one hundred years from now it will still be a landlocked Godforsaken country.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

See, if we had a decent President, we’d make good use of this.

War for Soil indeed!

[Recon Dad]

(In the Times story, undersecretary Brinkley also wonders, perfectly irrelevantly, whether the resources can be “be developed in a responsible way, in a way that is environmentally and socially responsible.”)

An Open Pit Mine would be an improvement in Afghanistan.

[element92]

officers lie

officers lie so enlisted men
die in meaningless wars,
so officers can get their ticket punched

[Texas resident]

If I remember right, bill klintoon worked up a business deal over this about 10 years ago. I think he is a major player in this deal.

[Doulos1]

Good one, dang I wish I had said that!

[ScottinVA]

Russia and China will be there, forthwith.

[Zhang Fei]

Maybe we should have the Pentagon set up a mining department so we can better exploit domestic resources. I’m gonna call BS. Trace minerals are *everywhere*. The problem is never the absence of minerals - it’s minerals that are economic to extract at prevailing market prices.

[Last Dakotan]

officers lie so enlisted men die in meaningless wars, so officers can get their ticket punched

At least that was the cliche' for almost every Hollywood war movie made...

[Buckeye McFrog]

NO WAR FOR LITHIUM!!! (where’s Code Pink???)

[SMARTY]

GOOD!! Now they can give up growing opium.