Monday, 14 June 2010
Report: US finds mineral riches in Afghanistan
This is not new (it has been known since the 2007 report on which Petraeus's talk was based) but it does give some hope that Afghanistan can develop and economy that is not totally dependent on opium.
Of course, this may upset the Taliban, who view opium not as merely a cash crop, but as a way of waging war on the children of the west.
This is not new (it has been known since the 2007 report on which Petraeus's talk was based) but it does give some hope that Afghanistan can develop and economy that is not totally dependent on opium.
Of course, this may upset the Taliban, who view opium not as merely a cash crop, but as a way of waging war on the children of the west.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 23:46 
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