China is already there investing $30 billion into a copper mine: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/03/08/63452/chinas-thirst-for-copper-could.html
To: epithermal
Their poppy fields are worth more than that.
2 posted on
06/14/2010 11:54:45 AM PDT by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: epithermal
China is already there investing $30 billion into a copper mine: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/03/08/63452/chinas-thirst-for-copper-could.html They have been buying up mineral resources all over the world with the $$$ we are sending them.
3 posted on
06/14/2010 11:54:57 AM PDT by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: epithermal
Isn’t it odd that Russia went broke trying to control it?
4 posted on
06/14/2010 11:55:38 AM PDT by
jessduntno
(America is now just like Easy Company in Bastogne...and Obama is Lt. Dike. God help us.)
To: epithermal
If this were in America, the EPA and the environmental movement would be suing immediately to make sure we left it all in the ground where Mother Earth wants it to be.
5 posted on
06/14/2010 11:56:55 AM PDT by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: epithermal
Afghanistan is a mountainous country about the size of Texas - like this is a shock that the place has lots of minerals? I would be shocked if it didn’t.
The REAL question is can anyone make any money mining there with the poor infrastructure, massive corruption, crime, etc.
And here is a first hand observation. There is OIL and NAT GAS there. I have seen the old wells and oil in massive pools. The locals process and dig it themselves.
2banana
6 posted on
06/14/2010 12:03:01 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: epithermal
Yeah, this is old news since the Soviets and the U.S. knew about the minerals years ago, which makes this story suspicious. The problem is that land-locked Afghanistan has NO infrastructure with which to mine, mill, and transport the ores, making them effectively useless.
To: epithermal
8 posted on
06/14/2010 12:22:40 PM PDT by
dila813
To: epithermal
Like I said, this story is bullchips. Obama doesn't want to be blamed for losing Afghanistan, this story was floated to give him an alibi with the wingnuts for missing his self-imposed, campaign-tested timetable for defeat.
9 posted on
06/14/2010 12:23:07 PM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: epithermal
This is old news. That info has been out since 2007. But 20 of our soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last week, that doesn’t barely get mentioned. What better to take that off the news than 1 $Trillion headlines?
10 posted on
06/14/2010 12:39:43 PM PDT by
Freddd
(CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
To: epithermal
We could confiscate the whole lot of it and still not make a dent in our debt.
12 posted on
06/14/2010 12:49:35 PM PDT by
DManA
To: epithermal
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban will direct their resources to the region and will have it under their control within a year.
13 posted on
06/14/2010 5:12:06 PM PDT by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: epithermal
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