Did mineral deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama's '09 decision to widen the scope of the war?
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. Paul Jay says that United States has known all about these minerals since 2007, why is this story just coming out now?
The Real News' Paul Jay "But what I'm saying is, from 2007 on, all the big countries in the world, for example, including Canada, has to know about these thingsāit's a mining-focused country. So I think all the big powers knew about it and none of them said anything about it, which I think shows there's a lot of agendas going on in Afghanistan."
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