I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to get very excited about this. Multinationals are going to be excited at the opportunity to strip Afghanistan bare, and humanitarians on the assumption that the profits will go towards developing Afghanistan and improving the lot of its people. Obviously, this rosy outcome doesn't always occur, particularly in LDCs that are wracked by internal conflict. Fabulous mineral deposits can be as much a bane for a LDC as a boon. Ask the DRC or Sierra Leone-two countries with vast mineral wealth and also two of the poorest in the world. If I had to bet, it would be on Afghanistan following that route.

A great reason for us to stay in Afghanistan forever! I am sure British, American and other NATO soldiers won’t mind being maimed or killed for lithium ore, after all that is the key must have ingredient in the batteries that run our electronic devices.

The US has known about the mineral wealth of Afghanistan since at least 2007:

'Just visit the public web site of the U.S. Geological Survey and read the press release "Significant Potential for Undiscovered Resources in Afghanistan Released: 11/13/2007 10:00:00 AM" and you will find the following: "Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources according to the U.S. Geological Survey's 2007 assessment . . . Estimates for copper and iron ore resources were found to have the most potential for extraction in Afghanistan. Scientists also found indications of abundant deposits of colored stones and gemstones, including emerald, ruby, sapphire, garnet, lapis, kunzite, spinel, tourmaline and peridot. Other examples of mineral resources available for extraction in Afghanistan include gold, mercury, sulfur, chromite, talc-magnesite, potash, graphite and sand and gravel."' (from Paul Jay, Editor of The Real News Network) June 14, 2010

This 'news' is nothing more than another attempt by some war-backers and the US Military leadership to try to posit another justification for the US to remain involved in a fruitless and futile war in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

You might change the words "after the the hell it's been through over the last three decades" so it says "after the hell it's put itself through over the past 3 decades". Some people love to pretend that Afghans are nothing but victims, but I see a large degree of self-determination responsible for a lot of their problems. Many of them are extremely tribal, extremely xenophobic, extremely ignorant and extremely narrow-minded. Not all of them, but many. They would be fighting no matter what other countries came to visit.

...and after unsuccessful war in Afghanistan America jump their corporation to exploit the Afghanistan.... i think not.

There is apparently a concrete shortage in Afghanistan and a solid case that widespread construction of concrete floors offers the the most bang for Afghanistan's buck in terms of development; there's a well-documented concrete surplus in Japan, the U.S. government kind of owes the Japanese government one after punting on the relocation of Futenma Air Base, and Japan's exports are destined to take a hit once U.S.-China relations begin to warm again.

I'm aware there are no beaches in Afghanistan, so the tetrapod-producing sector of the Japanese concrete pork economy won't make any dents (unless they can somehow create a line of tetrapods designed to protect the dessert from erosion.) Japan could even send Tadao Ando to Afghanistan, to fill that country also with tasteless, hulking, concrete monoliths.

http://www.theinductive.com/christopher-carr/2010/6/14/afghanistan-id-like-you-to-meet-japan.html

1. History of Afghanistan proves beyond an iota of doubt that NO foreign power, however strong it might have been, ever succeeded to master the Afghans. British empire, USSR and now USA know it very well.
2. NATO forces currently employed in Afghanistan are destined to suffer defeat like their predecessors.
3. Afghans will give their life if you are there in Afghanistan as their guest but would take your life if you try to capture them or their land.
4. There is a safe and honourable way out for USA and NATO from the crucible of Afghanistan. If any one in USA is interested to know it, may contact at paksec@live.com

The news about Afghan mineral wealth is a clumsy attempt by the
U.S.Pentagon to justify additional military activity in Afghanistan. It's
been known for years that there are a lot of mineral deposits in
Afghanistan, but the country has never been politically stable enough, for
thousands of years, to allow the investment to be made there that is needed
to develop those deposits. That will not change anytime soon.

the results of Pentagon in Germany, Japan and South Korea. Don't blame PMS for Mullah's arrogance. Though I agree with you that this time they won't be able to change anything and will have to leave behind these people just as they found them. Democracy or not --------- Their is zero hope for their reformation.

US military adventures were already becoming surreal when Obama took office but now they have gone all the way and these latest Afghan mineral “revelations” give off the distinct odour of desperation. I am sorry for the President, but with the best will in the world not even he can unravel cobwebs.

Doom laden scenarios of Taliban taking over Pakistan and nuking the US homeland are simply not credible. If the US leaves the area, they will all be at each others throats for a while and then things will settle down to the volatile, occasionally bloody, medieval muddle it ever was for the simple reason that the Afghans prefer it that way, or at any rate prefer it to what is on offer now.

Thieves.

reason for us to stay in Afghanistan forever! I am sure British, American and other NATO soldiers won’t mind replica omega being maimed or killed for lithium ore, after all that is the key must have ingredient in the batteries that run our electronic devices.