US discovers $1 Trillion mineral deposits...

Why is the image they use to accompany that article of a sheperd with his ba-lambs? Are they trillian dollar sheep?
 
This might elevate them from standards such as the highest infant mortality rate in the world, and 70% of the population not having access to clean water.*



*sarcasm
 
Tigjaw said:
Why is the image they use to accompany that article of a sheperd with his ba-lambs? Are they trillian dollar sheep?
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it should be a picture of **** heaps, filthy trucks, and a dirty great big open cast mine, with an army of underpaid, mal-nurished afgan miners toiling in hte mid day sun.

however lambs and sheperd's look nicer..
 
Nix said:
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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I disagree. War is an absolute necessity to support nature. Not enough people die nowadays. There are no real threats from animals, medicine keeps people alive who should just die, medicine gives people children when they cannot conceive normally.

Nature's checks and balances for maintaining a sustainable population have been rendered inert by mankind. The only way we can ease the burden on the planet's finite resources is to kill each other in huge numbers.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
It's not a war, it's a limited skirmish.
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war (wôr)
n.
1.
a. A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
b. The period of such conflict.
c. The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
2.
a. A condition of active antagonism or contention: a war of words; a price war.
b. A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious

Semantics.
Still, why were they looking?

I'm not suggesting anything weird, just wondering how much effort and resources it takes to find such minerals. Is it hard? Did they suspect their presence anyway?
 
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Glaceon said:
war (wôr)
n.
1.
a. A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
b. The period of such conflict.
c. The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
2.
a. A condition of active antagonism or contention: a war of words; a price war.
b. A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious

Semantics.
Still, why were they looking?

I'm suggesting anything weird, just wondering how much effort and resources it takes to find such minerals. Is it hard? Did they suspect there presence anyway?
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good point, its not like you dig a hole, or 3 and declare 'there's a trillion $ of gold here" its must have been month of work for a lot of people.... they have probably known for a long time... makes you realise why we are still there...
 
Glaceon said:
How come there are people during the war looking for ore/minerals?
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To help them.

Glaceon said:
I'm not suggesting anything weird, just wondering how much effort and resources it takes to find such minerals. Is it hard? Did they suspect their presence anyway?
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Not really, you get geologists in.

They'll dig about, drill some and give you the results i'd suspect.

Either which way, the US can't win.

Who knows what the Afghan govn. will be like in a decade.

It says far too much for America/British strategy in that theatre to say they will benefit from this in the long term. Far too optimistic.
 
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of course they knew ! or atleast highly suspected and where hoping for it. in that article the ex afghan miner says he knew and im sure that info will of made its way to the US at some point between the 70/80s and now
 
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