As the USA Bails on Dubya's failed war in Afghanistan and the other one in Iraq.
Seems these two nations beat the losers here of the American armed forces. Putin Wins again!
Trump admin intends to announce Afghanistan withdrawal of 4,000 troops
Afghanistan Fighters are the best. CLEARLY, it seems our US troops can't defeat mud hut dwellers.
Btw. Blame Dubya, Not Obama. And the Great MAGA Douche just made our troops sacrifice there was confirmed BE for nothang.
There is no war. There is no chance. Maybe you are fighting a war but America is merely exercising a police action according to the constraints of the international community who value innocent lives over beating Persian dogs at any cost. If it were just a matter of kicking ass, the USA could take Afghanistan in 24 hours. But then, what is there but dirt? You've won dirt.
When you break it -- can't fix it -- and all the prize is -- is dirt ---
You HAVE no policy for a police or military action anymore... Should have put a dedicated spy satellite up for Afganistan and left about 7 or 8 years ago...
And all the prize is dirt? Well, some interesting and valuable dirt:
Afghanistan Sits on $1 Trillion in Minerals
The aerial surveys determined that Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium.
Source: Rare Earth: Afghanistan Sits on $1 Trillion in Minerals
Here's a 2017 take on the lack of progress or clarity about the value of the deposits...
The race to mine Afghanistan
For years, governments and experts have contemplated the mineral resource wealth of Afghanistan, where the US has been at war since 2001 – its longest ever conflict.
While the estimation that the country has untapped reserves to the value of $1tn has been widely disputed and downgraded given current commodity prices, Afghanistan is known to have large deposits of copper, iron ore, gold, rare earths, lapis lazuli and more.
Trump is not the first US president wanting to develop Afghanistan’s mineral reserves; both Barack Obama and George Bush tried and failed before him.
A report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction states that by 2009, the Department of Defense’s temporary Task Force for Business and Stability Operations and the US Agency for International Development had allocated nearly $488m to efforts to develop the extractive industries in Afghanistan. So far, there seems to be little to show for the investment.
At present, one of the largest mines in the country is the Aynak copper licence, held by a Chinese consortium of the state-owned Metallurgical Corporation of China and Jiangxi Copper Corporation. The deposit is reportedly worth upwards of $50bn but has languished undeveloped for nine years, demonstrating that mining in Afghanistan is no easy feat.
According to a report by William A Byrd from the US Institute of Peace (USIP), the delay is partly due to the consortium making unrealistic promises that would be ‘impossible or highly unprofitable to fulfil’, resulting in a need to renegotiate contract terms in its favour, which the Afghan Government has been reluctant to do. Security and inexperience appear to be additional issues, as well as the company being “rather risk averse, in contrast to the risk tolerance exhibited by experienced international mining companies in other insecure countries,” writes Byrd.
Some even doubt the value of Afghanistan’s reserves, given the difficulties and low commodity prices. Industry expert Tim Worstall wrote in Forbes recently: “And as a good enough rough guess, the costs of extracting those minerals in Afghanistan will be higher than the value of the metals once extracted. That is, the deposits have no economic value.”
