US discovers $1 Trillion mineral deposits...

Considering Afghan is the 4th most corrupt country in the world, don't have much hope. Look at Nigeria, 9th largest exporter of oil to the US - plenty of potential wealth and that hasn't exactly worked out well for the people/country (other than the few)

*facts may be a little outdated
 
Biohazard said:
In the immediate short term.

Yeah.

Anything beyond that, I seriously seriously doubt it.

So in effect, no. Imo of course.
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Look, we both know how this works. Little of that wealth will stay in the country, and what does will line the pockets of those in power. The ordinary Afghan isn't going to see a penny - it's the Capitalist way :(
 
Good for them i hope they dont let westerners mine it and mine it themselves. Should help to improve their lives. Export it to west for sure but dont let US mine it as its not theirs.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Look, we both know how this works. Little of that wealth will stay in the country, and what does will line the pockets of those in power. The ordinary Afghan isn't going to see a penny - it's the Capitalist way :(
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Why are you equating a mineral monopoly and exploitation enabled by military occupation, with free market ideology? If the Afghan people were the ones deciding what to do with the land, and an open bidding system for the mineral rights was in place then it would be capitalist free market.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Look, we both know how this works. Little of that wealth will stay in the country, and what does will line the pockets of those in power. The ordinary Afghan isn't going to see a penny - it's the Capitalist way :(
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Not really.

At best, some Afghans get rich.

At worst, some other people get rich.

I feel it is very unlikely to be Americans, in the long run.
 
Given how much this has cost in the first place, by the time it's made any money and the governments of various countries have claimed tax on that money etc. It'll be like losing a £10 note and finding a quid.
 
unfortunatly the good old robbing USA will bleed the country dry
how they get away with this is beyond me
 
Raymond Lin said:
But isn't the US $11 trillion in the red?
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I fear need to revise your figures as it's currently over $13 trillion but hey, what's a couple of trillion between friends. :p

However a debt even of this monumental scale isn't necessarily particularly important until and unless it is expected to be paid back and/or the people holding the debt think that America is insolvent. At that point it becomes a rapidly escalating problem but before then provided the debt appears to be serviceable then it's in the interest of most people who use the system to keep it going for as long as they can - peeing on America's chips might seem like fun for people ideologically opposed to them but for the rest of the World they rely on the American economy continuing to function too much to let it fail if they can avoid it.

I'll add a little quote I like from the genius that was the late Richard Feynmann - "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.".
 
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