Pentagon borrow Gerry Brownlee's magical mystery mining money machine
Trillion reasons to beat the Taleban
It could take years and possibly even a peace settlement for Afghanistan to reap profits from nearly US$1 trillion ($1.44 trillion) in mineral resources that United States geologists say lie beneath its rugged terrain - some in areas currently controlled by Taleban insurgents or warlords.
We bombed them into the stone age, and now we want their stones, that stinging feeling in the back of your throat isn't angry bile, that's the burning flavour of freedom.
The Pentagon are borrowing Gerry Brownlee's magical mystery mining money machine by making up ridiculous over valuation's of mineral wealth. Sadly though I don't think the Taliban will look kindly on a resource management consent application for an open pit mine, if anything it will spawn an environmental arm of the Taliban, think Greenpeace with ak-47s, minus the I-Phones and twitter accounts.
NZ is a country at peace, and we're not even sure if we have Gerry's $200 billion or the Governments statistics $3.5 billion worth in mineral wealth, how in good god's name could the American's have tested this valuation to any certainty when they have an active war going on for crying out loud!
This is an excuse to stay and exploit minerals, it's not a justification.
posted by Bomber @ 6:59 am
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4 Comments:
haha fake trillion worth of mineral wealth to make the US public feel a bit better about the war! The pentagon must be getting desperate!
It's worth pointing out that this isn't exactly a new find. The US was already aware that it was there before the war, I think they just wanted some 'good news' to make it into the media.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627650.301-thank-the-soviets-for-afghan-mineral-bounty.html
Yeah they oughta do what the Chinese do.
Support the regime (whatever it is)and line its pockets so as to get their hands on the countries resources for next to nothing.
FOR ONE THING, AFGHANISTAN LACKS EVEN THE MOST BASIC RESOURCES FOR MINING; SUCH AS RAILWAYS AND POWER.
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