Afghanistan has huge amounts of natural gas, petroleum, gold, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals, including lithium and “rare Earth elements” that are increasingly important in production of all electronics.

Originally posted by seiva7

War for the resources of the Afghanistan and geopolitical positioning in the Middle East under the cloak of "war on terror" is now the longest war in US history...

And it will not be over soon.

10 Years After U.s. Invasion of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has huge amounts of natural gas, petroleum, gold, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals, including lithium and “rare Earth elements” that are increasingly important in production of all electronics.

Originally posted by Required01

Originally posted by seiva7

War for the resources of the Afghanistan and geopolitical positioning in the Middle East under the cloak of "war on terror" is now the longest war in US history...

And it will not be over soon.

10 Years After U.s. Invasion of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has huge amounts of natural gas, petroleum, gold, copper, coal, iron ore and other minerals, including lithium and “rare Earth elements” that are increasingly important in production of all electronics.

Any person with there eye's just slightly open knows this. War on terror is just to justify marching in there to the public. There was no terror thread from Al-quada, it was created. Money, greed, wealth and power is what drives this war, not war on terror.

The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago.

By mid-November American forces had driven the Taliban from the capital; at month's end Kandahar was in the U.S. sights; in early December the Taliban leadership fled, and Marines set up a base near the Kandahar airfield.

No one proclaimed "Mission Accomplished," but they might as well have. Surely, it seemed, this would be a brief campaign.

On the one-year anniversary, in October 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN, "The Taliban are gone. The Al Qaeda are gone."

And today "The Other War" has gained a fresh and dubious distinction: it is the longest war in our nation's history, surpassing the conflict in Vietnam. 103 months passed between passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the withdrawal of the last American combat forces from Vietnam. As of today, the Afghanistan war is 104 months old.