Adinnieken on 19 July 2012
| Kasz216 said: Because Africa is in a strategically poor location. Plenty of African countries have oil.... and could be producing a lot more of it if they were more stable. A lot more then Afganistan anyway, which has no real oil reserves. |
It's than, not then, and it's Afghanistan. Than is used in a comparison, then is used in relationship to time or order.
No, as it just so happens, Afghanistan has something far more valuable. One trillion (USD) in copper, gold, cobalt, lithium, beryllium, precious metals and other valuable metals. Some of which, once tapped, will erode the power China has over its control of lithium and beryllium.
Regardless, the reason for going to war in Afghanistan was to go after the people responsible for 9/11.
