22-05-2013, 05:40 AM
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.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.