By Matthew Ehret Nature deplores a vacuum, and one of the largest vacuums in recent history awaits to be filled as the United States departs from Afghanistan after 20 years, millions of lives lost, and over $2.2 trillion spent to send the once proud pearl on the Ancient Silk Road back to the stone age.
It's a plan as they say, a white paper that may or may not pan out. You say that the Afghan War cost the US $2.2 trillion, I've seen $14 trillion elsewhere, but since money is no more real than any other religion it doesn't really matter. China already controls access to all the world's rare earths, having Afghanistan too, I can see might be a future point of contention as well as the resent ploy by the US to force China into an arms race to drain its monetary reserves as it did to Russia.
At the end of the day the only thing that I see that is of any real lasting value to people is their own minds and beliefs, without which there is no real value. In the special case of Canada, I find it a shame that its citizens can't find the wealth of their own beauty that they seek it elsewhere and destroy themselves in the process.
It's a plan as they say, a white paper that may or may not pan out. You say that the Afghan War cost the US $2.2 trillion, I've seen $14 trillion elsewhere, but since money is no more real than any other religion it doesn't really matter. China already controls access to all the world's rare earths, having Afghanistan too, I can see might be a future point of contention as well as the resent ploy by the US to force China into an arms race to drain its monetary reserves as it did to Russia.
At the end of the day the only thing that I see that is of any real lasting value to people is their own minds and beliefs, without which there is no real value. In the special case of Canada, I find it a shame that its citizens can't find the wealth of their own beauty that they seek it elsewhere and destroy themselves in the process.