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$1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan
clustro writes "American geologists working with the Pentagon have discovered deposits of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium of incredible bounty, amounting to nearly $1 trillion. In fact, the lithium deposits are so vast, an internal Pentagon memo has stated that Afghanistan could become the 'Saudi Arabia of lithium.' The wealth of the deposits completely flattens the current GDP of Afghanistan, estimated at about $12 billion. Mining would completely transform the economy of Afghanistan, which presently is propped up by the opium trade and foreign aid. However, it could take decades for extraction to reach its full potential due to the war, the lack of heavy industry in the country, and a corrupt national government."
Yeah, I also remembered that half actually.
Still, if you give it a bit of thought, USA actually managed to divide a country in 2 creating a social problem. And nobody really can say what would happen if their had been allowed to solve their differences by themselves instead of being the stage for a war. Perhaps today if you look at the all picture, the ALL country would be much better than North Korea is. After all, people would not rally and support a war and a dictator like they did for the actual regimen, if they didn't feel threatened and attacked like they where being by the USA.
Guess what happened then, we turned into a stable democratic society.
Neither you nor I votes for the president. We vote to express our opinion to our EC members. This is a republic. A republic is referred to as a "representative democracy" but those are weasel words. Democracy means "government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system." But in at least most states, we do not elect the electors! Thus, this is NOT a democracy, and it was intended not to be one from the beginning. Remember, the founding fathers may have found themselves to be principled, but they were landowners, often slaveowners, and they had their own agendas to push. The fact that there may have been a few who truly had the welfare of men who would come after them in mind does not change the overall tone of the document, which is quite vague in almost every area.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"