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Originally Posted by dyna mo
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.
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I bet the Chinese will get pushed out of this one. I don't believe the USA would have stayed there, in what is now the US's longest war EVER, to share such a thing with the Chinese or anyone else.
There is a reason they have endured all these years fighting no one in the mountains. Yes, running the opium trade is not a bad business but this is a good find.