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originally posted in:Sapphire
1/23/2014 5:42:26 AM
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They're not heavy-handed enough as of right now, considering we wasted several years and billions of dollars making no progress.
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Have you ever considered the possibility that perhaps the U.S military is stationed in Afghanistan for commercial purposes?
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The only 2 commercial points of potential that exist in Afghanistan are 1. weapons development (excuse to keep contracts going) and 2. as strategic partner to use as a future staging point against another nation. Other than that, Afghanistan has little oil, and although it produces ~90% of the world's opium, the total export value of all that is around $4 billion, which is next to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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And about [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all]1 trillion dollars worth of minerals locked away[/url]
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Also, those guys totally don't uh... don't need- don't want those minerals... so they want to give them to us >_> In all seriousness though, keep in mind that discovery was in 2010, and we've been in there since 2001, and are now starting to leave. If US companies are able to go in and exploit the minerals, then maybe it'll be bad, but otherwise at least it'll be creating industry within the country that previously exported next to nothing.
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I'm not trying to imply that the whole Afghanistan war was just a coverup so we could try to get these things, I'm just saying that is some economic reason for us wanting to remain involved in some form. Especially since I'm pretty sure China is trying to get as much of this stuff as they can in Africa.
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That's the type of thinking that causes these issues; when you kill innocents, you create more enemies. You can try and beat them into submission, but the human spirit is pretty tough as seen in WW2, and it's more likely you'd end up starting WW3 before you eliminate all your enemies that way. If you wipe out their military in a week, and then spend the next few years making their lives better than ever, you make friends rather than enemies.
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The thing is that we never did wipe out our enemies in a few weeks. I'm not talking about the recovery. I'm talking about how even at our current force, we're apparently unable to wipe out the enemy.
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In the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it took 25 days from launching the first missile to having taken control of every city and town of Iraq. If you're referring to insurgents as "the enemy", then again, that's the point of this concept; you will never be able to eliminate every single insurgent via bullet / explosion; evening nuking the region would just spawn underground enemies in other nations. Until you can convince them that the US isn't the threat to the future of their people and way of life, they'll just keep coming back in the form of family and friends of the guy you just wiped off the surface of the planet.
