22-05-2013, 06:33 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:While the US has been waging war against the people of Afghanistan the Chinese have been buying up most of the Afghan rare earth metals and minerals. They have enough to keep the Chinese auto industry in production for the next 100 years. It would have been more advantageous (not to mention cheaper) of the US to give every Afghani over 20 years old $100,000 and build schools and hospitals istead of dropping all those bombs and sending all those drones. Now who do you think the Afghanis are going to want to deal with in future? It wont be the US. If the US want these minerals they are going to have to take them from the Chinese now. Quite another ball game.
Maybe that's why the CIA has been running with their money bags to Karzai all this time. Whenever have we heard that the US decided to supply countries with money for schools and hospitals for their people? Or doing anything sensible like that? We wanted their people to be soldiers for us without any educational or medical benefits. We want cheap wars. It is some kind of Nineteenth Century Capitalistic thinking, isn't it?
I don't know these figures, but doesn't the US get its computers, other electronics, and remote drone control electroincs from China? Don't we own a number of such plants in China? Let's let China do the manufacturing of such with their cheap labor while we do the buying and killing.
Are we staying there to protect the pipleline? Certainly not to fight Al Qaeda...Terrorism? But Why? There has to be some kind of reason,
maybe not the bestr kind of reason.
Adele