The war in Afghanistan
has been a costly, bloody and brutal affair, it has been 11years of
savage conflict where the NATO countries have poured in money and
young lives. The total NATO deaths has passed the 3,000 mark, of those
more than 2,000 were American forces and over 400 were from UK
forces. On top of that there has been tens of thousands of physically
injured and mentally scarred young people from the NATO forces. Then
of course there is the figures that get very little coverage in that
babbling brook of bullshit, Western media, Afghan civilians killed.
The figures are horrendous, according the UN figures almost 13,000
have been killed in the last six years, 2,332 in 2011 alone, a 10%
increase on the previous year. Then it being a capitalist war we have
to look at the financial side. The estimated cost to the US tax payer,
calculated up to September this year, will be a staggering $487.6
billion, and to the UK tax payer it will be £20billion. How much is that in social services?
Why have the Western
nations poured so much in suffering and money into this poor country?
To catch/kill, Osama bib Laden? To bring democracy to the Afghans?
Well they have succeed the first mentioned, at what cost? They have of course failed miserably in
the latter.
However could the
reason for this costly savage slaughter be clarified by this extract from a BBC article:
Continue READING:Afghanistan is known to have vast reserves of oil, gas, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium. In late 2011, a consortium of Indian companies inked a deal to begin mining some of the country's large stores of iron. But the country is known to have a wider array of mineral resources; in 2010, the Afghan ministry of mines claimed a value of its reserves of nearly a trillion dollars, then carrying out tours to promote investment in them.
Of course a Western compliant puppet government in Afghanistan would see them control those assets as the have done in Libya and Iraq, with Syria and Iran in their radar.
