[americanophile]

And suddenly the whole world has a reason to want Afghanistan to succeed. This will change everything!

[TruthConquers]

China was hoping to corner the rare earth minerals.

I would bet she isn’t too happy about this.

[RatsDawg]

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!

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[P.O.E.]

No blood for lithium! / s

[coloradan]

Far be it from the Afghans to discover this for themselves.

[marktwain]

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!

[montanajoe]

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...

[icwhatudo]

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!

[onona]

What are the odds of that.

[muawiyah]

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.

[dalebert]

dont lose my afghan lapis!

[Flag_This]

Watch China become the taliban’s new financial backer.

[xzins]

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.”

[Rebelbase]

Unobtainium?

[TexasFreeper2009]

I knew it.

Obama started this war to steal their MINERALS!

NO WAR FOR MINERALS!!!

/s

[Cicero]

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.

[anniegetyourgun]

GAMECHANGER. Now Russia will simply wait us out (since we’ve announced when we’re leaving) & move in.

[Migraine]

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.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[lbryce]

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!