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Originally Posted by Mr. Cool Ice
I didn't know this.
So the Russians lost, had to leave Afghanistan and and its occupied by the USA. I do know that the Taliban banned opium growing in 2000 and the US invaded them in 2001. Also know that many privately owned military companies (like Black Water) are being paid by pharma companies to guard the poppy fields.
Amazing isn't it?
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yes, it's amazing. thing is, it's also a clusterfuck. the minister of mines was bribed by the chinese to secure the rights to those minerals, the karzai government is quite corrupt and the country isn't really setup at all for a mining effort that those minerals require.
i am not saying you are wrong, but i do know there's a lot more involved than the u.s. simply getting those minerals and the rest of us watching the prices tumble overnight.