US discovers $1 Trillion mineral deposits...

I've previously argued in favour of pulling out of Afghanistan. Now I think we should stay - oh and btw Afghan government, we're giving you the bill for the war.
 
Im sure with US industrial guidance and a strong military presence the Afghans will manage to exploit that amazing discovery for the good of all the west.
 
The whole regions has a wealth of minerals, its just that the instability over the last 100 years has meant no govt in the region could look that far foward, they'd rather concentrate on blowing their neighbours up. Pakistan has a hell of a lot of quartz and what not aswell.
 
Sounds good to me. War over resources is older than time itself and is the most natural thing possible - witness the animal kingdom on a daily basis.
 
wohoo said:
The whole regions has a wealth of minerals, its just that the instability over the last 100 years has meant no govt in the region could look that far foward, they'd rather concentrate on blowing their neighbours up. Pakistan has a hell of a lot of quartz and what not aswell.
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Quartz??? The most common mineral on the planet is a valuable commodity in your mind!!? :D
 
[TW]Fox;16747336 said:
Sounds good to me. War over resources is older than time itself and is the most natural thing possible - witness the animal kingdom on a daily basis.
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That doesn't quite sit well with me I'm afraid.

Natural selection is natural. War is not. War over resources that one doesn't immediately need as a matter of life and death is also not natural. The only other fauna that I can possibly think of that comes close to waging war - aside from male territorial disputes - is that of ants and termites.

It's cheap and heartless to delegate war as something inevitable as a consequence of life. As humans we are able to rise above it, yet time and time again we choose not to because we're too stupid and backwards. I suppose in that sense, we really are no better than other animals. We're due another enlightenment I think.

Of course, we're able to shift the goal-posts here and suggest that as part of the animal kingdom, anything we do is natural, which is fact, but such is the pompous flattery of anthrocentric thought, let's ignore that tangent for now.
 
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Hmm no I think he makes a point. When push comes to shove we/you/me fight for what we want/need be it a glass of water, a cave to live in or an oil field.

We can rise above it but it wont get us anywhere when those that choose not to have everything.
 
Yes, but it's not push comes to shove, or 'survival of the fittest' is it? We have no pressing need to mine the region other than $$. It's not even a case that we'd benefit, the more than likely private company allowed there will.
 
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