{"id":19431,"date":"2010-06-14T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19431"},"modified":"2010-06-14T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:39:30","slug":"afghanistans-redemption-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19431","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan’s redemption discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of Pentagon specialists and geologists have discovered a large undeveloped concentration of minerals that may eventually make Afghanistan an independent mining center for the world according to the New York Times<\/a>; <\/p>\n

The previously unknown deposits \u2014 including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium \u2014 are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.<\/p>\n

An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the \u201cSaudi Arabia of lithium,\u201d a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course this could also set the tin-foil hat types spinning yarns about the evil Bush Administration sensing these deposits before they invaded Afghanistan. Gordon Duff comes to mind.<\/p>\n

But, since this is the United States we’re talking about, for now the world is talking about how this can benefit Afghanistan and not how we can remain there longer than we need to destroy the Taliban. It can also work in other ways to give the Taliban more reason to fight for the control of resources. For now, I’m just glad that this can give the Afghans some light at the end of their millenniums-long tunnel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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