[Newbomb Turk]

People don't understand that Afghanistan is not about the country but about whats under the ground there.

Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium.

Estimated at over 1 trillion dollars worth.

Russia, or China would be there in a second if we pulled out.

[SomeCallMeTim]

People don't understand that Afghanistan is not about the country but about whats under the ground there.

I certainly do... they are herding goats on top of TRILLIONS of dollars worth of metals.