Afghanistan's Minerals Deposits Now Super-Sized By U.S. Geologists -- Thomas P.M. Barnett, Globlogization
NYT story via Michael Smith and David Damast and HuskerInLA.
I know the temptation for crowing here is intense, but I would suggest going very easy on the cascading assumptions. There are a lot of reasons why this news has remained unknown this deep into globalization's expansion.
The "shocker" here is that U.S. geologists have confirmed what has been long suspected: Afghanistan's mineral riches are significant. Just like with Iraq, once outside experts got some free range, a lot more reserves were found. Frankly, that'd be true for any Gap nation that's remained largely cut-off from the outside world for reasons of too much dictatorship or not enough law. Hell, it was true for Russia on oil.
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