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Waheed Akhtar
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Waheed Akhtar
2739 Followers
farhanleoAug 15, 2010
Another reason for America to stay longer in Afghanistan.
brad3378Aug 15, 2010
Another reason they can finance their own recovery.
gefahrAug 16, 2010
According to http://costofwar.com/ (sources in footer)..
The war in Afghanistan has cost the US alone over $324 billion to date.
1.8 billion barrels, even if it was 100% profit (like if it magically came out of the ground, jumped into barrels, and shipped itself) would only be worth about $135 billion at the time of my posting.
Some perspective on how much this war is costing. There's virtually no resources that could be discovered there that would ever make this pay for itself, unfortunately.
mulockAug 16, 2010
Oil has a value far greater than $$$$. Having more of it, means when s**t hits the fan you have more power. IE Peak Oil, etc.
bendersonAug 16, 2010
No, having more of it just makes people burn more of it and do nothing about the problem for that much longer.
sarcasteakAug 16, 2010
@gefahr Did you miss the discovery of trillions in mineral reserves?
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Another reason for China to buy up those rights.
greenwaldAug 16, 2010
A good idea. I hope we sell the whole place as a "turn key" operation.
funkedupAug 16, 2010
I don't believe you. The US would never occupy a foreign country because of a natural resource.
filemanAug 16, 2010
(/s)
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
they were searching for ben laden, but they found Oil ! wow surprise !
nucleardruidAug 16, 2010
Good thing, just as the Iraqi government, we will probably let them trade and sell their own oil just as we have done much in the past...
crunchydeluxeAug 16, 2010
Another reason for left-wing drones to spew oil conspiracy theory bulls**t.
goffy59Aug 16, 2010
Another reason why zombies can't be cured.
priggernickAug 16, 2010
You sound like the drone in this instance.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
You idiots talk about Obama being born in Kenya, Obama being a muslim, a socialist, a marxist and a communist and WE'RE the conspiracy nuts?
Awesome. I love watching the right go completely nuts.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
Considering American companies were shut out from oil contracts in Iraq, I dont have much faith that this will work out either.
amnesianAug 16, 2010
Yeah! Obama and his Texan oil pigs.....
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
Hey assh**e, we've spent billions upon billions rebuilding Iraq and have not taken over all of the oil wells and will NEVER get repaid for it. In Afghanistan, even if we don't succeed in helping them build a stable government, you know we'll never get our money back on that one.
So, where's a shred of evidence for what you are describing? That is, we have never as a country taken over the resources of another nation and there's no reason to believe we will now. So STFU.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
allantronAug 16, 2010
We can't let this oil fund terrorist groups...
mxm111Aug 16, 2010
This is what? Whole 90 days of US oil consumption?
Meh...
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Why am I not surprised?
mackdiesel2010Aug 16, 2010
I bet Obama knew about this oil field long before the Afghans and wants to keep the war going so we can take their oil. IMPEACH!
itsnickkAug 16, 2010
/s?
mackdiesel2010Aug 16, 2010
yeah, /s
slvrbullet87Aug 16, 2010
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maccawaccaAug 16, 2010
yes quite convenient indeed
stackeredAug 16, 2010
Wasn't that lithium field in Afghanistan too? Lots of profit to be made over there... how LUCKY of us to currently occupy the area....
thehofstetterAug 15, 2010
I smell a new Beverly Hillbillies...
lolcoelacanthAug 15, 2010
Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jeb
brad3378Aug 15, 2010
Taliban came shootin' and he got one in the head.....
botaxeroAug 15, 2010
Poor mountain main barely kept his camels fed
brad3378Aug 16, 2010
Then one day as he was watchin' his Fox News....
CoolchickenAug 16, 2010
That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
blackoculusAug 16, 2010
Then one day he was shoot'n at some jews....and up from the bushes came 72 virgins in the nood.
califragAug 16, 2010
The Afghani Talibannies
Come listen to a story about a man named Hamed
A poor goat farmer, never kept his family fed.
Then one day he was shooting at some troops,
And up from the ground came a bubblin' crude!
Oil that is, black gold, Arabian tea.
Well the first thing you know ol' Hamed's a billionaire,
Kinfolk said Hamed move away from there!
Said Kabul City is the place you ought to be
So they loaded up the camel and moved into luxury.
Kabul City Center, that is.
Swimmin pools, limousines.
The Afghani Talibannies!
thehofstetterAug 16, 2010
Well executed. I am proud to have inspired this.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
best comment ever^
taz00Aug 16, 2010
Bollywood, now Afghaniwood
bigsteveAug 16, 2010
Yea, exactly like the Beverly Hillbillies, in that it's starring Americans who will benefit from finding oil.
technixnewsAug 15, 2010
sounds great
hardwalkerAug 16, 2010
conflict oil?
douglasscottAug 15, 2010
Is this better than the heroin industry or is it kind of the same thing?
tirauAug 16, 2010
Best comment in this thread.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
I think it's worse.
overdrivenAug 16, 2010
...says the guy who will put gas in his car within the next few days.
popdensityAug 16, 2010
Opium is a renewable resource.
maccawaccaAug 16, 2010
i would put heroin in my car but every time i try cross the border some dude with a dog freaks out
taz00Aug 16, 2010
You need help from the CIA
switzornAug 16, 2010
better, this one has cooler weapons
eraptorAug 16, 2010
Different product, but same players and addiction.
bewmarAug 16, 2010
Oil killed the heroin star
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Same propaganda...different country...different president.
darkshroudAug 15, 2010
Until now there was no known oil in Afghanistan.
crunchydeluxeAug 16, 2010
Notice Oldstein mentioned "different country".
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
Yes, we understand what he was saying Crunchy, but his point is moot because oil was discovered nearly a decade after the invasion.
Say what you will about Iraq, but Im reasonably sure we didnt go to Afghanistan for the oil... Im pretty sure we actually went there for the terrorists. I know its unpopular to believe the common dialogue here, but until recently Afghanistan was just a barren mountainous black hole that swallowed every invasion attempt since Alexander the Great.
bewareofthecowAug 16, 2010
What about the trillion in minerals?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/14/afghanistan.minerals/index.html
leftamiAug 16, 2010
And that evil opium.
sealbeaterAug 16, 2010
@ThwartedVillain
I think you mean "Oil wasn't PUBLICLY discovered until nearly a decade after invasion.
In addition, we didn't go into Afghanistan for the oil or the minerals or the terrorists. We went to secure an overland route for a pipeline that runs from Iraq, through Afghanistan to the Black Sea, thereby bypassing the Strait of Hermos and Iran's control of it. Wheels within wheels.
swordedgeAug 15, 2010
That news and the Lithium news will make it even harder to get rid of that tiny minority ruining it for everybody, the Taliban.
xs11axAug 15, 2010
How did you work that one out?
swordedgeAug 16, 2010
Easy, the two resources represent bajillions of dollars or what ever unit of money you care to use. Everybody in the country wants to control it. The Taliban will look around them, think about the Lithium, and keep fighting when otherwise, they might give up.
xs11axAug 16, 2010
ROTFLMAO!
Have the afghani people ever given up? EVER!?
rburrowsAug 16, 2010
Abundance in natural resources is known to impede economic growth and development. This is known as the resource curse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
People were already scared for Afganistan's future once huge Lithium deposits were discovered there. This only makes the problem worse. This paradox of plenty seems linked to increased conflicts and corruption and reduced economic diversification.
Closed AccountAug 15, 2010
Sergeant: "Unless, of course, war were declared."
[Alarm goes off]
Fry: "What's that?"
Sergeant: "War were declared."
itsnickkAug 16, 2010
They look like DORKS!!
mhugginsAug 16, 2010
Oh yeah? THEY look like dorks!
inverselogicAug 16, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQkaD6fG8mk
Redundant but awesome...
mhugginsAug 16, 2010
I totally read that in the sergeant's voice. Awesome.
sweetdaddydAug 15, 2010
Well looks like we are going to have to free the Afghani people now from their oppressive government.
darkshroudAug 15, 2010
Yeah until now this was the one place where there was no excuse of oil in any way.
f**k.
pistolfredAug 16, 2010
Not quite "in any way". Afghanistan already had some oil, just not in the quantities its neighbours do. More important, though, is the oil north of Afghanistan in places like Turkmenistan. In the 90s, UNOCAL wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan into Pakistan as going through Iran wasn't a viable option. The pipeline might have been for natural gas instead of oil but that's close enough (for me). For whatever reason, this was abandoned but brought back to life just a few months after the attacks in Afghanistan began. I think the project fell apart again several years later.
eadintAug 16, 2010
Actually it's not to far from the truth, the reason why afganistan is so screwed is because of a lack of natural resources. Whith these natural resouces their economy can kick into high gear and they can afford to invest in infrastructure education and quite possibly develop their own middle class, that is the key to a stable government and economy, this is actually a very good thing for their country, interest in investment will be a really good thing
perogi21Aug 16, 2010
lol, if you believe anything you wrote, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn...
eddiepotatoAug 16, 2010
It's as if you're a grammar school film strip from 1954.
labdiscoAug 16, 2010
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jimlowAug 16, 2010
thats the one we setup right?
regularuserAug 16, 2010
We are going to free them from their oil. That's for sure.
kent4jmjAug 15, 2010
Not to mention the large deposits of Lithium which have been reported recently. Geez that's one unique and potentially very profitable piece of real estate.
brad3378Aug 15, 2010
Too bad there's 10+ Million landmines there.
http://www.afghan-network.net/Landmines/
thegreat0neAug 16, 2010
Sounds to me like it would be a good idea to invest in the landmine removal industry..
kent4jmjAug 16, 2010
10+ Land mines is a great evil. It's a serious thing that Obama did not keep his Campaign promise to end the war. That he hasn't is an indication that he, as was Bush, is much to amenable to outside influence. Congress fails to declare a war and uses procedural/bureaucratic smoke and mirrors to divorce itself from its clear Constitutional responsibilities.
evilkrustydollAug 16, 2010
Why would they bury thousands of Nirvana LP singles in Afghanistan?
kzamAug 16, 2010
yea..but none of those deposits can be reached effectively with current equipment.
seltaeb4Aug 15, 2010
Oil, minerals, and opium . . .
We're not going anywhere.
botaxeroAug 15, 2010
I bet they have unobtanium
bewareofthecowAug 16, 2010
I wonder why God decided to put our resources in such a horrible place?
kebwiAug 16, 2010
"Our" resources? Okay, I admit, that can be taken in multiple ways, but seriously, that's f**ked up.
atomslifeAug 16, 2010
Lighten up, bro. Take a day off. Get your oil changed. Refill your lithium prescrip. Maybe even pop an oxy, and give thanks that you live in the most *resourceful* nation in the world.
v1rukAug 16, 2010
It's only horrible until we get in the next order of napalm.
frostyb007Aug 16, 2010
Uhh which God? Our resources?
Resources are all over the world, just depends on what you're looking for. Canada has the second most oil reserves in the world and it's not that horrible here.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
lonster3000Aug 16, 2010
<Whoosh!>
Apparently some people need a sarcasm detector.
slimspacemanAug 16, 2010
I LOL'd
seriouzbidnezzAug 16, 2010
manifest destiny?
summerofgeorgeAug 16, 2010
yes, but we require more vespene gas
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
Yeah, just like Iraq.... oh wait.
grandpamunsterAug 15, 2010
Next headline: Oil company execs set up meeting with Afghan president.
nepidaeAug 15, 2010
sweet sweet blood for oil
gorftronAug 16, 2010
Diabetic troops?
trashyamericanAug 15, 2010
no wonder the trailer trash is so eager to occupy afghanistan.
darkshroudAug 15, 2010
Until now there was no known oil in Afghanistan so f**k off.
trashyamericanAug 16, 2010
they said the same thing about the minerals. later reports revealed rednecks knew all about them decades ago.
dreadpirateAug 16, 2010
@TA - Lets see you back that up with an actual link. You've never been able to do so before, I bet you can't do it now.
dreadpirateAug 16, 2010
To the five people who dugg me down, I challenge you to find *any* of the comments TA has made and see if any of them are backed up with anything approaching real facts or reason. He's content to spout his nonsense day after day, but when called upon to back it up, he vanishes from the conversation like the coward he is.
macinit1138Aug 15, 2010
Sounds like a lot of oil, it isn't. The US would consume that in less than 92 days(2008 consumption rates).
dickyt83Aug 16, 2010
Just for the record that's 131 billion dollars worth of oil, going by the current cost per barrel of oil.
grumpyrainAug 16, 2010
Wow, that is like nearly enough to pay for the troops to stay there for 3 years.
farhanleoAug 16, 2010
If u read the article it says its worth $3trillion
westri17Aug 16, 2010
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nicksourceAug 16, 2010
That's a scary statistic.
digghasnoethicsAug 16, 2010
Actually its less than that.
Numbers like this tend to include the total size of the reservoir, but recovery rates are 25-40% of the total, cutting that number to about a month of US consumption.
kebwiAug 16, 2010
Hmmm, so by my logic we should spend, as most, 92 days attempting to insure access to this oil...then we should unconditionally quit regardless of the current state of the conflict.
...I doubt it will go that way though.
priggernickAug 16, 2010
And that's 92 days (or a month or a week or how ever long we could get out it) worth of oil that we need, or our entire country's existence would grind to a halt.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
caseycooldAug 16, 2010
Alright, get your head out of the sand.
Unless you just didn't put a "/s" you are about the most short cited comment I have read in the last half-hour on digg. THAT takes effort.
kanockAug 16, 2010
The largest supertanker in the world is the Norwegian-owned Knock Nevis which is 647,955 tonnes deadweight and can hold 4.1 million barrels of petroleum.
travh99Aug 16, 2010
that the US can consume that much oil in 92 days doesnt make it not a lot of oil.
shadekeikoAug 15, 2010
well that's convenient. between this and huge ass mineral deposits they found several weeks ago, it looks like we'll be sitting pretty for a while.
nonpromqueenAug 15, 2010
"Discovers." right.
grindelwaldAug 16, 2010
My thoughts exactly.
gorftronAug 16, 2010
Remember, white people discover stuff. Others loot.
pnunnAug 15, 2010
aaaaaannnd we're never leaving....
phydeaux70Aug 16, 2010
We could find the largest reserves in the world in the United States and never be able to touch them, thanks to the liberals.
Funny how everybody comments about staying, when we have enough energy here if we were allowed to harvest it.
deathweaver108Aug 16, 2010
Congrats. Your country will never know peace.
bermudianguyAug 16, 2010
They never have.
kahnzaAug 16, 2010
hooray propaganda!
mithrasinvictusAug 16, 2010
Too bad Bush and Cheney didn't know about this in 2003.
evilkrustydollAug 16, 2010
I'm still waiting for all that stolen oil to get here from Iraq.
mithrasinvictusAug 16, 2010
I never said it was a success. That's why it would have been better if they had just stuck with the one war.
keithlolbermannAug 16, 2010
Relentless, partisan hack is relentless and partisan.
mithrasinvictusAug 16, 2010
Judging by your comment history, yes you are.
So is this one of the "digg patriots" backup accounts?
keithlolbermannAug 17, 2010
If I wanted my own comeback, I'd wipe it off your mom's face.
4degreesAug 16, 2010
there goes the neighborhood...
mikaelsjAug 16, 2010
@mishtrasinvictus, oh they did, they knew it very well.
scooternrocketAug 16, 2010
What a brilliant deal, lets spend $500B for get at a field worth at most a few $Billion assuming the US gov gets it all for free. We all know they wont so in other words lets spend $500B invading Afghanistan so we can hand over fields like this to BP or Shell and then they can sell it back to us at a premium.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
There's too much logic in your statement to be dugg up. It needs more irrational hatred. Work on it.
scottamusAug 16, 2010
It's ok because the US is doing the "investing" and the oil companies are getting the return.
rouzukiAug 16, 2010
Stop complaining about the USA being in Afghan for the natural resources. It's highly likely that's not true at all. We sure as hell can't mine it while we're fighting.
We may get at it in the future but right now there doesn't seem like there will ever be a winner. And as the article states most investors don't even want to get into it because of the war.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bigsheldyAug 16, 2010
Because usually soldiers are the one's processing oil, right?
glazAug 16, 2010
Sometimes it seems like the only people who TRULY benefit from these wars are arms dealers and oil companies, sitting comfortably in a massive expensive office complex somewhere watching their stocks rise. But that would be unamerican.
viper2026Aug 16, 2010
sounds about right to me...
howitzer86Aug 16, 2010
So invest in defense contractors and oil companies. You can benefit from it too.
Just leave your soul at the door.
anothersoldierAug 16, 2010
FREE THE PEOPLE!
downsetdanaAug 16, 2010
The average oil consumption per day in North America is 29.6 million barrels. That means 90 days, of energy coming from that oil. I'm only stating this because I'm high, felt like doing the math, and that we're running out of resources really f**king fast.
bdbrAug 16, 2010
...and you didn't notice that someone posted it a half-hour ago.
downsetdanaAug 16, 2010
im high?
brad3378Aug 16, 2010
Then one day as he was watchin' his Fox News....
everlast88Aug 16, 2010
I smell a troop surge...
thatmarksguyAug 16, 2010
Mission Accomplished!
jaydub99Aug 16, 2010
I have a feeling we're about to get some more "intel" on where Bin Laden is hiding...
theskunkmonkeyAug 16, 2010
Rabble rabble rabble OIL! Rabble rabble rabble Someotheristan!
hawaiianruleAug 16, 2010
I told you we were there for oil
cajungator3Aug 16, 2010
Where is my discount card then?
ryanshepherdAug 16, 2010
The Russians mapped out Afghanistan's Natural Resources long before we showed up. We knew it was there, maybe just not exactly where to drill/mine and exactly how much.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
But the Russians were smart enough to eventually give up.
itsnickkAug 16, 2010
If by "give up" you mean "the Soviet's government collapsed" then yes, they were smart enough.
danj484Aug 16, 2010
Also helped that Reagan armed the Mujahideen to the teeth.
sealbeaterAug 16, 2010
The Mujahideen who later evolved into the Taliban.
Quick note, the Mujahideen committed several acts of terrorism (with our support) on Russian soil, but stopped once the Soviet Union withdrew. Food for thought.
cajungator3Aug 16, 2010
Oh Oh...Bush....Oil....Conspiracy....
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
troll...troll...troll...troll...troll...troll...troll...libtards...troll...troll...troll...
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
This is on top of the 1 Trillion dollars of minerals that were recently rediscovered. lol
bewareofthecowAug 16, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/14/afghanistan.minerals/index.html
mrcodergaAug 22, 2010
OK the first to name the THIRD fabulous treasure trove to be found NEXT in Afghanistan wins This Gentleman's Bet.
My guess for the 3rd Fabulous Treasure Find in Afghanistan will be:
wait for it
WATER.
bdbrAug 16, 2010
This will work like any other resources in the region - a few guys will get rich, everyone else will stay poor.
rhawk187Aug 16, 2010
Don't supposed that's enough for the war to "pay for itself?"
emjayseaAug 16, 2010
Sure, just like the oil in Iraq is going to pay for that war...any day now.
jimbo92107Aug 16, 2010
Oh, THAT's why we're still there..!
2bdtrmndAug 16, 2010
Get out of here! Really? What a coincidence that the US is in the right place at the right time!
nyx210Aug 16, 2010
What a coincidence...
emjayseaAug 16, 2010
Well that oughta settle things down.
isuzu14bAug 16, 2010
FTA:
Various estimates of Afghanistan's hidden wealth have been made in recent years, but the challenge of exploiting the resources in a country at war and with little mining infrastructure is daunting for most investors.
Is it just me, or does this seem brutally honest?
Exploiting the resources is just too daunting for investors, huh?
Apparently investors prefer easy exploitation.
"Rape and pillage... making the world a more hostile, miserable place since 20,000 BC"
warpfieldAug 16, 2010
If I didn't know any better, I'd think our reality is a simulation, and the controllers are telling each other, "Hey, put a big bunch of oil in that country there, that ought to spice things up ha ha ha"
waggdoggAug 16, 2010
I guess they are going to want the evil United States to help them develop this and use our technology to make them rich, like we did for the other Arab countries.
fengpostAug 16, 2010
They just asking for an occupation!
x86bsdAug 16, 2010
So that's like what, three days of US oil consumption? I wouldn't give up your day job in the Taliban yet guys.
csstudentAug 16, 2010
It's about 90 days of US oil consumption and about 21 days of worldwide oil consumption.
Closed AccountAug 16, 2010
This isn't news. It's been well known for a long time about Afghanistan's rich oil reserves, which is likely why we give a s**t about the "Taliban" enough to establish American interest infrastructure.
ojxxAug 16, 2010
s**t is about to get real. MAD real.