U.S. Sends Troops To Niger For Drone Missions

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7. Maybe the French need the resources, but that surely isn't what we are after.

We uncovered trillions of rare earth materials, that currently China has a stranglehold on, in Afghanistan. I don't think we are sticking around to mine and pillage, I think we are (hopefully) getting the hell out of there.

2010-2012 will prove to be a key period in technological development that pushed back peak-oil decades if not more. Unfortunately the extraction will also ruin our environment, not just the burning of the fuel.

Between the US becoming the #1 producer of oil in the next 5-10 years again, and the current natural gas boon......and the vast fields discovered in Australia (if they are dumb enough to allow fracking) make me doubt that we are in Africa for natural resources.

I realize why we are/were in Somalia, even though I disagree with anything other than the anti-piracy efforts, but this latest French-led colonial-era BS has be baffled.

Hopefully the French don't try going back to Vietnam, forgetting that we are basically "allies" at this point.


Oh what a fustercluck we have....