Karzai Told to Dump U.S. (Hell Yes!)

[TheCorinthian]

{I told KS I would avoid the Politics and Religion Section for a wile, but this was just too good.}

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704729304576287041094035816.html

 

Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban and rebuilding the economy, Afghan officials say.

 

The pitch was made at an April 16 meeting in Kabul by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who bluntly told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the Americans had failed them both, according to Afghans familiar with the meeting.

 

 

 

I am all 100% for this. Lets get the hell out of there and see how they like dealing with the Chinese! I see a win-win all the way around.

 

 

 

[Hugh_Hoy]

 

HH

[kamui]

{I told KS I would avoid the Politics and Religion Section for a wile, but this was just too good.}

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704729304576287041094035816.html

 

Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban and rebuilding the economy, Afghan officials say.

 

The pitch was made at an April 16 meeting in Kabul by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who bluntly told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the Americans had failed them both, according to Afghans familiar with the meeting.

 

 

 

I am all 100% for this. Lets get the hell out of there and see how they like dealing with the Chinese! I see a win-win all the way around.

 

 

 

The Chinese will be more the happy to get access to the huge amounts of raw materials recently found in Afghan soil. Also they have no problems to deal with dictatorships, e.g., as long those dictators don't kill their own people (see Libya).

 

[Flashermac]

And maybe the Taliban will start spreading their influence into the PRC's western non-Chinese inhabited Muslim provinces. Definitely a win-win situation. That should keep the Chinese busy.

 

 

 

p.s. Bet the Indians would be crapping themselves though.

 

 

[Guest lazyphil]

chinese hearts and minds approach will do wonders!

[Bangkoktraveler]

{I told KS I would avoid the Politics and Religion Section for a wile' date=' but this was just too good.}

 

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704729304576287041094035816.html

 

Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan's president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban and rebuilding the economy, Afghan officials say.

 

The pitch was made at an April 16 meeting in Kabul by Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who bluntly told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the Americans had failed them both, according to Afghans familiar with the meeting.

 

 

 

I am all 100% for this. Lets get the hell out of there and see how they like dealing with the Chinese! I see a win-win all the way around.

 

 

 

The Chinese will be more the happy to get access to the huge amounts of raw materials recently found in Afghan soil. Also they have no problems to deal with dictatorships, e.g., as long those dictators don't kill their own people (see Libya).

 

 

 

How many Trillion dollars of minerals does Afghan have?

 

If I remember right, the USA government kept this a secret. Some of the minerals are on the rare side. Real good deal for China.

[ThaiHome]

...If I remember right, the USA government kept this a secret. ...

 

 

 

Sometime you can be amazingly amusing in your constant attempts to show conspiracies by the US government in everything.

TH

 

Link

In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

 

During the chaos of the 1990s, when Afghanistan was mired in civil war and later ruled by the Taliban, a small group of Afghan geologists protected the charts by taking them home, and returned them to the Geological Survey’s library only after the American invasion and the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.

 

“There were maps, but the development did not take place, because you had 30 to 35 years of war,†said Ahmad Hujabre, an Afghan engineer who worked for the Ministry of Mines in the 1970s.

 

Armed with the old Russian charts, the United States Geological Survey began a series of aerial surveys of Afghanistan’s mineral resources in 2006, using advanced gravity and magnetic measuring equipment attached to an old Navy Orion P-3 aircraft that flew over about 70 percent of the country.

 

The data from those flights was so promising that in 2007, the geologists returned for an even more sophisticated study, using an old British bomber equipped with instruments that offered a three-dimensional profile of mineral deposits below the earth’s surface. It was the most comprehensive geologic survey of Afghanistan ever conducted.

 

The handful of American geologists who pored over the new data said the results were astonishing.

 

But the results gathered dust for two more years, ignored by officials in both the American and Afghan governments. In 2009, a Pentagon task force that had created business development programs in Iraq was transferred to Afghanistan, and came upon the geological data. Until then, no one besides the geologists had bothered to look at the information — and no one had sought to translate the technical data to measure the potential economic value of the mineral deposits.