On 2010-12-25, Teredo wrote:

The object now is to secure the Trillions of dollars worth of lithium
deposits found in July in Afghanistan by American geologists. So expect
the US to be there for many years because of the potential trillions of
dollars of an important mineral like lithium. The stuff is used to make
cell phone batteries and more and more batteries for just about every
small electronic device. Whoever controls this will have the corner on
the market for sure.

Screw the lithium. It's the poppies that keep us there. Under the
Taliban, as cruel and barbaric as they are, they stopped the trade in
poppies, a major source of heroin. Since we've taken over, the the
heroin flow is secured and going full tilt boogie. Can't have our
whole anti-drug bureaucracy shrinking and the private prison industry
losing $$$$! Jes like our kill-people war machine, the anti-drug war
is a mucho big business.

nb