Well...it seems that Afghanistan is not just a jagged empty rock full of people who just want to be left alone, those who want to bother everyone(Taliban), & IED's. As it turns out underneath all that rock & IED's are a TRILLION dollars worth of minerals that range fro good ole Gold, Iron, Copper to Lithium (Lithium is used to make batteries...what makes your cell phones...PDA's...IPad's work)! This should be if nothing else just oh so interesting... For instance will Karzai play nice & cut major deals with us(read: Halliburton...yes that Halliburton)...or when the Chinese come a calling stick his finger in our eye? Will be give their old friends the Russians the finger? How will the Taliban react? Say screw it, play nice to get their cut or go ballistic & step up their attacks? Do they realize with a Trillion at stake what is coming their way? Do they get it if the Chinese cut some deals & they mess with them they will just throw bodies at them & slaughter villages without giving a damn? I'm sure the Russkies would like some payback...this is right up their alley. Regardless...not only is no one leaving so fast...Real Estate in Karzai is about to boom. What about their neighbors in Pakistan...some of the finds are on their borders...think they might want some? They are after all our partner in the war on terror...they just happen to train the Taliban as well...
How will this current Administration deal with this?!? Say what you will about the last...but they (ie Darth Cheney, Dubya, his Daddy etc...) had some experience & connections in the biz world. O & his boys don't have a heck of a lot(Read: NONE...they are all academics & politicians) How does O feel that his War is no longer just the"War on Terror"(currently known as the Minor Disagreement between those who are not Judea-Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, etc, Freedom Fighters who like to blow themselves up when they can't get close enough to behead non-believers live on the Internet but really are misunderstood & want to be our friends if it were not for their hatred of woman, free speech, common decency, free-trade, alcohol, sex, & sports which has yet to be tried in a court of law amongst their peers) but now possibly the War of a Trillion?!? I never believed that Iraq was about the Oil...Mexico & Venezuela are a lot closer...but this war just took one hell of a twist & turn. Too early to tell...but this story has just begun...
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