-- A senior Republican senator has said a plan should be devised for American troops to remain permanently in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Republicans would now push for an indefinite US stay in Afghanistan.
He said: "We have had air bases all over the world and a couple of air bases in Afghanistan would allow the Afghan security forces an edge against the Taliban in perpetuity. It would be a signal to Pakistan that the Taliban are never going to come back. It would be a signal to the whole region that Afghanistan is going to be a different place."
But, he said, the Afghan people would have to earn such a relationship with the US, "so we can have an enduring relationship, economic and militarily and politically."
On the weekend, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the US would more than triple its customs and border patrol experts in Afghanistan in 2011.
She said the experts would train Afghan police and customs officials to better manage the country's border crossings.
Recently, the commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan General David Petraeus said that the Western military alliance would increase its operations along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Analysts have suggested the US will look for a reason expand its military operations in the troubled South and central Asian regions, in order to place bases near Russia and China.
Source: Irish Sun
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Surprise Surprise - $1 Trillion of minerals found in Afghanistan
Surprise surprise ... Afghanistan is rich in natural resources. What a coincidence ... so was Iraq. But look what happens to poor Palestine ... where people have been living in refugee camps for more than 50 years.
It also seems we knew about these resources before 9/11/2001 .... is that a coincidence?
I'll let you draw your own conclusion ... here's the latest news
A leading U.S. newspaper reports U.S. geologists have discovered nearly one trillion dollars' worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
The New York Times says U.S. officials believe the vast veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, lithium, and niobium could "fundamentally alter" the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war. U.S. officials told the newspaper Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the "most important mining centers in the world."
Lithium is a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for cell phones and laptops. Niobium is a soft metal used in producing superconducting steel.
U.S. General David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, told The Times "there is stunning potential here." Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minster of Mines, said the minerals will become "the backbone of the Afghan economy."
The newspaper says Afghanistan's mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists, using charts and data collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The New York Times says Afghan geologists took the charts home to protect them during the chaos that followed the Soviet withdrawal, and produced them again in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban.
Source: voice of America - Asia
P.S. I wonder what the mineral buying Chinese think of this development?
It also seems we knew about these resources before 9/11/2001 .... is that a coincidence?
I'll let you draw your own conclusion ... here's the latest news
A leading U.S. newspaper reports U.S. geologists have discovered nearly one trillion dollars' worth of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan.
The New York Times says U.S. officials believe the vast veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold, lithium, and niobium could "fundamentally alter" the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war. U.S. officials told the newspaper Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the "most important mining centers in the world."
Lithium is a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for cell phones and laptops. Niobium is a soft metal used in producing superconducting steel.
U.S. General David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, told The Times "there is stunning potential here." Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minster of Mines, said the minerals will become "the backbone of the Afghan economy."
The newspaper says Afghanistan's mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists, using charts and data collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The New York Times says Afghan geologists took the charts home to protect them during the chaos that followed the Soviet withdrawal, and produced them again in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban.
Source: voice of America - Asia
P.S. I wonder what the mineral buying Chinese think of this development?
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