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Adinnieken said:
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.

Resorting to grammer nitpicking when proven wrong, huh?

I'll requote you since you deleted it

"Anyone who says anything about the middle-east isn't about oil, is lying."

Though neither it nor Iraq was about oil... it's the easier sell, since their isn't any oil there. (Well there is, but not a significant amount.)

Also worth noting... the vast majority of Afghanistan's metal contracts have gone too... the Chinese.

Who also have done a lot of investing in Africa for their resources and oil.  Africa isn't as barren as you seem to think.