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No, Afghanistan doesn't have oil or other buried resources. What it does have is access to areas that do, and -- some conspiracy theorists say -- there is a booming poppy trade. Poppies make heroin, which is a multi-billion-dollar industry in the US, "war on drugs" or not. I'm just sayin'.

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Well, I thought of that but didn't want to be so brazen as to say that the forces that be wanted 'in' on the drug trade.

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Why would "they" not? Billions of dollars is billions of dollars - doesn't seem to matter anymore where it comes from, so long as the elite have control of it. Afghanistan is in a unique geographical spot, between China and Iran, which seems to be logistically a great launching pad. I think there are plenty of strategic reasons for wanting to keep a US military presence there. Not saying that I agree with that, just making a point.

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Afghanistan Rights Monitor SLAMS Washington Spin About "Progress" in Afghanistan:

The Afghanistan Rights Monitor's (ARM) mid-year report on Civilian Casualties of Conflict (.pdf) blasts the happy-talk coming out of the Obama Administration about the deteriorating security situation and its effect on civilians: Ref. Source 3

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Obama's Afghan War in Perspective
By Gary Leupp

Practically everyone now understands that the war in Afghanistan is going very badly. This is not because the Taliban and other "insurgent" forces are strong and their foreign foes weak. It is because of the Afghans' indomitable spirit of independence that is only intensified by each civilian death due to house raids or bombs. Ref. Source 3

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Soldiers Kidnapped

Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Logar have kidnapped two US soldiers, reports say. Ref. BBC

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The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency
By Conn Hallinan

The Afghan Taliban have never been a threat to the West, and the idea that fighting the Taliban would reduce the threat of terrorism is "complete rubbish." In any case, the al-Qaeda operatives who pulled off the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon got their training in Hamburg and south Florida, not Tora Bora. Ref. Source 4

Afghanistan USA Politics Business Civil & History - Page 25

I am in no way an expert of this but I have seen a few videos. By what I have seen their country is pretty messed up. I am guessing but I think our presence there is helping a lot more than it is hurting.