The transfer of power has already begun.

China and Brazil are rich in resources and cheap labor.

America and Israel are fading to insignificant.

The consumer is all that matters on the corporation called Earth.

I am not surprised.

American foreign policy is a big fat joke, like our currency will soon be.

Hopefully this wakes up some of the political class fat cats, and some americans to vote these idiots out of office.

You mean someone didnt bow down and bend over to the states (no offense meant to americans) i find it kind of refreshing that they are doing what they want to do, not what they are "encouraged" to do.

I think it has something to do with the fact China hasnt been destroying the Afghans country and murdering large swathes of its civilian population.

That may have just tipped the scales in there favour somehow.

It's quite funny in a way then I remembered all the innocent deaths and all the young kid's killed on both sides
The USA fought for oil and lost it gee whizz karma?

Uh-oh, China is slowly taking away all the bully's toys...we all know what happens when you take things from a whiny bully right?

america's only interested in the opium supply, which the taliban reduced to 0.

opium being the precursor to morphine which oxycontin and all painkillers are derived from.

reports are that afghanistan produces 90% of the worlds opium supply. very, very, cheaply.

which translates to huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. the prescription drug industry is worth over $600 billion a year globally.

Originally posted by randomname
america's only interested in the opium supply, which the taliban reduced to 0.

opium being the precursor to morphine which oxycontin and all painkillers are derived from.

reports are that afghanistan produces 90% of the worlds opium supply. very, very, cheaply.

which translates to huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. the prescription drug industry is worth over $600 billion a year globally.

Yep.

You got it !

The "legal" drugs and the "illegal".

Originally posted by randomname
america's only interested in the opium supply, which the taliban reduced to 0.

opium being the precursor to morphine which oxycontin and all painkillers are derived from.

reports are that afghanistan produces 90% of the worlds opium supply. very, very, cheaply.

which translates to huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. the prescription drug industry is worth over $600 billion a year globally.

+1

You of course left out opium finds its way to America totaly by accident, and anyone who is involved are of course enemys of Freedom and Democracy and the fact pharma industry covets this drug so much is just sheer coincidence.

Ask Reagan, he went to War on Drugs.

Originally posted by randomname
america's only interested in the opium supply, which the taliban reduced to 0.

opium being the precursor to morphine which oxycontin and all painkillers are derived from.

reports are that afghanistan produces 90% of the worlds opium supply. very, very, cheaply.

which translates to huge profits for pharmaceutical companies. the prescription drug industry is worth over $600 billion a year globally.

Brilliant, Of course.

Turn an illegal raw drug source into a profitable Pharmaceutical.

Hats off to you sir.

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So Afghanistan had oil after all ?
(as if we didn't know)

It's time for u.s. to find alternative energy
or else the war on oil will kill us all.

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Just a couple of quick thoughts.

Where was the US? They, and about five other countries, were outbid by the Chinese.

What does this do to the "war for oil" theory? I see it's being abandoned without even a kiss good-bye. I'm not sure anyone really ever believed that's why we were there. Now it's "war for drugs?"

Please excuse the nasty attitude, no coffee yet.

Afghanistan has a common border with china.

China's long-term interest in the stability of Afghanistan is probably much larger than that of Americans & Europeans who just want to get out and forget about Afghanistan asap.

The joke about the idea of the NATO forces leaving behind a stabilized, non-islamist Afghanistan has always been that Russia and China would have had the greatest benefit without incurring any substantial cost.