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Is anybody actually going to watch Obama's speech on Afghanistan tonight? From what I've heard, this might be the beginning of the end of the Forever War. No doubt the opposition will immediately accuse him of treason.
Either way we're still probably going to have some sort of occupational presence in the region for a decade, and of course we'll be paying for it well into our granchildren's lives. Thanks, PNAC.
**** it, let's just order the remaining troops to cordon off the area around the massive rare earth metals deposit that supposedly exists over there and start mining it. As long as we're maintaining a military presence, we may as well profit from it to some degree. Then we can tell the Chinese to go **** themselves for hoarding their rare earth metals.
We're only 10% into the Hundred Years' War (actually 9%, but who's counting).Is anybody actually going to watch Obama's speech on Afghanistan tonight? From what I've heard, this might be the beginning of the end of the Forever War. No doubt the opposition will immediately accuse him of treason.
Either way we're still probably going to have some sort of occupational presence in the region for a decade, and of course we'll be paying for it well into our granchildren's lives. Thanks, PNAC.
Invading / attacking Afghanistan was justified. Invading / attacking Vietnam was not.
**** it, let's just order the remaining troops to cordon off the area around the massive rare earth metals deposit that supposedly exists over there and start mining it. As long as we're maintaining a military presence, we may as well profit from it to some degree. Then we can tell the Chinese to go **** themselves for hoarding their rare earth metals.
I should have been clearer. China is hoarding its rare earth metals - it produces a ****load of them. Beijing has strict export controls in place to maintain a monopoly over the country's production for domestic use. Link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a39aea4e-9a9d-11e0-bab2-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Q1LwZ67z
I should have been clearer. China is hoarding its rare earth metals - it produces a ****load of them. Beijing has strict export controls in place to maintain a monopoly over the country's production for domestic use. Link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a39aea4e-9a9d-11e0-bab2-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Q1LwZ67z
If the US maintains a presence in Afghanistan, we should at least safeguard the massive rare earth metal deposits discovered there and start mining them. Cripes, it'd give the locals something to do other than trying to blow our troops up with IEDs. As far as why the Afghans haven't done anything with them, my guess is because the crap was discovered fairly recently, and that country doesn't exactly have the industrial infrastructure necessary to make use of such a find. Years of rule by an oppressive regime preceded by years of war has a tendency to dampen the development of industry.