This could be a good thing…:
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — 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.
via U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com.
I just hope the Unites States and Afghanistan handles this the right way. This could end the drug trade over there and could also rebuild that Country.
Let’s hope, for the sake of the those people over there, at this works out — the right way.