And suddenly the whole world has a reason to want Afghanistan to succeed. This will change everything!
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To: americanophile
China was hoping to corner the rare earth minerals.
I would bet she isn’t too happy about this.
2 posted on
06/13/2010 6:30:24 PM PDT by
TruthConquers
(Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: americanophile
Pffft...1 Trillion dollars is chump change now days, once Obama finds out about this, it will be spent up in no time. Wasteful stimulus Government and Green jobs abound for Afghanistan!
3 posted on
06/13/2010 6:31:52 PM PDT by
RatsDawg
To: SunkenCiv; blam
4 posted on
06/13/2010 6:34:31 PM PDT by
Jet Jaguar
(*)
To: americanophile
No blood for lithium! / s
6 posted on
06/13/2010 6:35:17 PM PDT by
P.O.E.
("Danger is My Beer" - Rev. Dr. Fred Lane)
To: americanophile
Far be it from the Afghans to discover this for themselves.
7 posted on
06/13/2010 6:35:33 PM PDT by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: americanophile
Watch the conspiracy theorists come out of the woodworks and declare that the US knew about this all along, and it was the *real* reason for the war!
8 posted on
06/13/2010 6:38:09 PM PDT by
marktwain
To: americanophile
Well if gold goes to $20,000 an ounce as I read here earlier today it wont take any time at all to develop the reserves...
To: americanophile
Imagine if Bush sent mineral drilling teams to the middle of a war that he was escalating.
The left would be freaking out!
NO BLOOD FOR LITHIUM! NO BLOOD FOR LITHIUM!
10 posted on
06/13/2010 6:39:14 PM PDT by
icwhatudo
("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
To: americanophile
What are the odds of that.
12 posted on
06/13/2010 6:41:20 PM PDT by
onona
(dbada)
To: americanophile
Russian mineralogists discovered a major deposit of gallium arsenide in a mountain North of Kabul. Within 6 months the Red Army was inside Afghanistan "helping the regime".
They moved in on the gallium arsenide immediately, mined it out, and within weeks of completely exhausting the supply they pulled out of Afghanistan.
13 posted on
06/13/2010 6:41:52 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: americanophile
dont lose my afghan lapis!
14 posted on
06/13/2010 6:42:06 PM PDT by
dalebert
To: americanophile
Watch China become the taliban’s new financial backer.
15 posted on
06/13/2010 6:42:15 PM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: americanophile
I’ll believe it when I see it. That country’s been there since dirt, and it’s hard to believe it hasn’t been scoured for precious metals for millenia.
Not saying it ain’t so. Just saying, “show me.”
16 posted on
06/13/2010 6:42:16 PM PDT by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
To: americanophile
17 posted on
06/13/2010 6:43:25 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
To: americanophile
I knew it.
Obama started this war to steal their MINERALS!
NO WAR FOR MINERALS!!!
/s
To: americanophile
Well, if Iraq is any precedent, we’ll probably spend a trillion fighting the war in Afghanistan, and then hand the minerals over to the Chinese and the French. That’s what we did in Iraq.
Heavens forbid that we should seek any recompense for our expenditure of blood and money.
23 posted on
06/13/2010 6:50:13 PM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: americanophile
GAMECHANGER. Now Russia will simply wait us out (since we’ve announced when we’re leaving) & move in.
To: americanophile
Now if only we can get the stupid snaggle-toothed knuckleheads to actually start mining, maybe they can quit growing those cloud-9 poppies and we can leave.
26 posted on
06/13/2010 6:55:26 PM PDT by
Migraine
(Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
To: americanophile
A decade or two ago, an economics historian made a most extraordinary discovery, something unique in economics. He discovered the one and only known 100% correlation between economic national prosperity, and economic national decline.
Mining. Nations and national groups that mine are prosperous. The more they mine, the more prosperous they are. As they mine less, their nation is in decline. The discovery that this has been true in all times and places that mined was unheard of, and he spent another decade trying to disprove the theory, which he could not.
This is because mining is at the center of economic development. In every direction it stimulates the surrounding economy many layers deep.
This bodes very well for Afghanistan.
28 posted on
06/13/2010 6:58:44 PM PDT by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
(Two New Episodes of 'Futurama', this June 24th, on Comedy Central)
To: americanophile
There is indeed a God and He’s am American! God Bless America! Take that where the sun don’t shine, America-haters of the world!
32 posted on
06/13/2010 7:11:17 PM PDT by
lbryce
(Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
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