We “won” in Afghanistan in the first 6 weeks - it a was brilliant effort - but we left the tribal leaders in power.
Even now, today, if we resolved to torch every poppy field we’d rob the war lords of their power. Not really hard to find the fields between the miles of rocks and dirt.
The fact that we haven’t means we are not in it to win it.
The country's natural resources include: coal, copper, iron ore, lithium, uranium, rare earth elements, chromite, gold, zinc, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, marble, precious and semi-precious stones, natural gas, and petroleum among other things.[57][58]Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfghanistanIn 2010, US and Afghan government officials estimated that untapped mineral deposits located in 2007 by the US Geological Survey are worth between $900 bn and $3 trillion.[59][60][61]