Minerial deposits in Afghanistan

[uptown]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?no_interstitial
This is a brilliant idea to get that country out of the dark ages and into the real world. With the vast wealth this place has, maybe this is the answer to their problems.
My hat's off to U.S. government for actually using their heads for once.
 

[Eagler]

Afghan coming out of "the dark ages" .. not in our lifetime.

[soda72]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?no_interstitial
This is a brilliant idea to get that country out of the dark ages and into the real world. With the vast wealth this place has, maybe this is the answer to their problems.
My hat's off to U.S. government for actually using their heads for once.
 

It certainly presents opportunites for them which can be translated into hope for a better future.  The real question is who's going to risk investing into such an unstable part of the world to develop these mines? 

[AKH]

Pentagon brass must have missed the irony in “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”

[Yeager]

afghanistan is like that little piece of property surrounded by the backyards of a dozen houses that no one takes ownership of......you know..the tall grass where all the dog crap, garbage and used washer/dryers end up.

Edited the warrior ant stuff out.

[uptown]

It certainly presents opportunites for them which can be translated into hope for a better future.  The real question is who's going to risk investing into such an unstable part of the world to develop these mines? 

If the Afghan people are smart, hopefully they'll invest in their own future. The place has been a wasteland since the beginning of time and now they have a little hope to turn all that around. It'll be interesting to see what they do with this knowledge.

[jdbecks]

you really think they have just discovered that?

[Jayhawk]

afghanistan is like that little piece of property surrounded by the backyards of a dozen houses that no one takes ownership of......you know..the tall grass where all the dog crap, garbage and used washer/dryers end up.

Poison the place in its entirety.  Just spray it, kill it.  No one needs nor wants it, and the little soldier ants that call the place home have zero positive contribution to the rest of the globe and have done nothing but cause all the rest of us problems for hundreds of years. 

It aint worth it, just spray those little soldier ants, leave enough poison leftover to keep the place dead for a few hundred years and be done with it.

Wow

[Yeager]

Wow

It's personal.

[Jayhawk]

It's personal.

I see, while I'm sure you've got an interesting story and it would be an intriguing topic to discuss, I know this thread won't last long if we started that conversation.

 

[RTHolmes]

ants ... poison ... etc

so you want to gas the afghans. any other groups you consider subhuman?

[BoilerDown]

so you want to gas the afghans. any other groups you consider subhuman?

The Bish of course.

[Yossarian]

EDIT:  screw it.

[Yeager]

That's not exactly a valid reason for wanting to exterminate an entire population, as you so eloquently put it.

Lol, you have no idea.  

Edited the warrior ant stuff out.

[Yossarian]

I removed my post, continuing this won't be productive for anyone