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Adinnieken on 19 July 2012
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Kasz216 said:
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.


You do realize that just because a country is largely Muslim and a desert doesn't make it part of the middle-east, right? 

Technically, Iraq was about oil.  You have to go back to a DoD document from the 1990's that was presented to then President Bush by then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, outlining why we should continue to wage war with Iraq, for the purpose of creating a friendly democracy, which would help secure oil.  Iraq was barred from selling it's oil due to a UN embargo (pushed for by the US), so the only way to get access to that oil (other than by breaking the embargo like the French and Russian's did) was to go to war with Iraq.

We knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  We knew anyone who told us anything differently was lying.  We knew the Iraqi's didn't have the capability to build a bomb, let alone launch one.  All that capability got destroy either by the UN in the early 90's or Israel years earlier.  The story the Bush administration gave to the American people was a completely false, bullshit story and we absolutely knew it.

I didn't suggest Africa was barren.  In fact, I never said Africa was barren.  The problem is, most of the countries in Africa have little there we value economically.  If they did, we'd get more involved.