Posted on 11/13/2018 8:29:17 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
Under better circumstances, Afghanistan’s mineral wealth could justify the necessary infrastructue investment and security assistance. For now though we lack reliable local allies and secure access to Afghanistan. This is unlikely to change.
To take out their (al qaida’s) bases.
And I’ve said on here at least a dozen times that every religious site, major population center and military installations in the entire middle East (except Israel, Jordan, and maybe Egypt) should have disappeared under a bright flash followed by massive mushroom clouds.
All it takes is one, on the “holy” city of Mecca, or an even more strategic one on the Kabba, a pagan symbol of the false religion of Islam. The Kabba is gone, ergo no reason to believe in the phony “prophet” and his phony religion. You cannot fulfill the phony “pillars” of Islam, therefore the religion is worthless. One cruize is all it would take. Unfortunately, no one has the stomach for it, even after all the deaths attributed to this pagan religion.This might even start another world war-—all those phony Islamists would be emasculated and innervated at the same time.
Their “holy” book tells them they must remain at war with everyone not muslim until we submit.
Submit or Die
There is no coexistence with Islam.
The sooner people accept the truth about Islam the sooner we can eradicate it.
I never said we should be there or stay there. I really don’t think there was any reason to go there in the first place. I doubt we will ever extricate ourselves from the mess there now.
The fact is most Afghan people don’t give a ‘F’ about each other even.... They are a failed population once again, entirely by their own hands, and that’s not going to change. Unfortunately those with any intelligence who had a chance to change their country left it long ago without regrets. Those remaining are mostly working at social changes with little success....and or holding government positions and highly corrupt for the most part.
The dancing Boys are in full swing.....drug production continues as before......Taliban continues to knock people off and blow things up......It’s like a really bad part of town you just seal up and keep it in check from flowing outside it’s parameters. Which Pakistan is doing just that by building walls etc now on their border.
IOW Curtis Lemay was a peacenik commie compared to you.
The problem is, I believe, that in a few cases, this leaves no “friendly” or coercible suppliers of the rare minerals, in sufficient supply, especially in the short term. In the case of neodymium, the US has some ore, but the entire mining / processing / manufacturing chain has to be rebuilt for us to supply a portion of our needs, ourselves.
Still, even that may be a secondary consideration. I’ll be asking about that on this thread shortly....
So, the deep state finally has enough opium stockpiled we don’t need Ag now, or have they switched to fentanyl?
Fatalistic, illiterate, modernity-hating, boy-humping heroin dealers.
Over 10% of the entire country is hooked on smack and far under that number have any concept of the whole “Afghanistan” concept:
It’s all about their TRIBE; the worst people in the world are the other tribe living across the valley.
FANCY OF GLOBALISTS, GRAVEYARD OF SUPER-POWERS
“It’s all worth it, if Afghani girls can walk to school” —that’s God’s way of saying you have too much money and can afford to pay others to fight for your stupid ideas.
Exactly. All mountainous areas have minerals. It is extracting them, and difficult and expensive it is that translates into whether they are valuable or not.
Afghanistan's minerals are not valuable because there is no easy way to extract them.
There are plenty of valuable minerals in the solar system. They are not valuable (yet) because it is too expensive to extract them.
Just because a place has minerals does not mean those minerals are valuable.
Should be "and how difficult and expensive it is"
Pull out and offer it to the Chi-coms.
In the latter part of the article, the Colonel advocates continued U.S. involvement but a different kind of involvement.
Imagine the situation in Afghanistan being more like the situation in Syria. That’s what he is implying.
Absolutely right. We need to be there, and we need to change the game. You know the DemonRats will not support the exploitation and development required. So we need to decide to lose or win, the middle ground delays this decision.I
We seem to have forgotten the way you win wars is by killing people.
Put a 30-mile no-go zone around Bagram Airbase (tweaks both the Russians and the Red Chinese) and leave the rest of the country to the savages.
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