The US went into Afghanistan to steal all their shit and used 9/11 as an excuse. Plain and simple.

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73. nothing seems to have been done

Your right on there, For my two cents worth I actually work underground myself. The company I work for owned a promising claim several years ago in south America but sold it because the cost to develop it was too high. The sight had good mineral deposits but power was almost exactly 100 miles away over mountainous country with damn few actual roads in the area. Among other things the government down there stipulated that any power line built must also feed any and all villages,settlements, etc,along it's route at the company's expense making this a losing deal. In 2015 my employer grossed about one billion dollars,,, their expenses? ,, Right at 900 million for the year. Keep in mind this other property was in a stable area, not a war torn geopolitical hotbed where it would be private investment money at risk, the US government would never directly fund such projects and as anyone who has worked around mines can tell you, do they turn over a lot of money? absolutely., but they can also tell you what ABSOLUTE UNIMAGINABLE black holes for money to disappear into they are to keep afloat as well.