So Mr. Minister is pitching for investment money. Well, it won't be long before we encounter a variation of UNOCAL conspiracy theory.
To: TigerLikesRooster; PAR35; AndyJackson; Thane_Banquo; nicksaunt; MadLibDisease; happygrl; ...
2 posted on
06/18/2010 5:06:52 AM PDT by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
when the big money comes in, that will be the end of the Taliban. What replaces them may not be something we like, either, but we won’t be dealing with 13th century goatherds with RPG’s any more.
3 posted on
06/18/2010 5:08:48 AM PDT by
balch3
To: TigerLikesRooster
This discovery explains the sudden shift in Obama’s treatment of Karzai a couple of months ago.
5 posted on
06/18/2010 6:18:12 AM PDT by
frithguild
(I gave to Joe Wilson the day after, to Scott Brown seven days before and next to JD Hayworth.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
No transportation, no ports, no law, no water to refine ores.
Minerals just don’t roll down to the sea. They reguire hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in a mine.
Nada.
Nothing.
Zip.
Might as well be on the moon. No one is going to touch them.
True value? Zero. Costs would exceed price. No free market capitalist pays for the privilege of losing money. Only government does that. Maybe the trains in Afghanistan can be run by Amtrac.
6 posted on
06/18/2010 6:22:15 AM PDT by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: TigerLikesRooster
8 posted on
06/18/2010 7:40:54 AM PDT by
Sarajevo
(You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
What's the long list of major manufacturing companies that are planning on opening up this mining mecca? Gonna be hard to run an armor-plated excavator.
I really have not seen any videos of the Afghan natives working on anything beyond their poppy fields.
9 posted on
06/19/2010 6:13:12 AM PDT by
pointsal
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