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Has everyone read or heard the news story from yesterday about the large deposit of copper, gold and other minerals under the soil in Afghanistan. How would things have changed if those resources had been developed in the 1950s or 60s? I don't think in a third world monarchy that the wealth would be shared equally. But much of it would have trickled down to the many of the Afghan people and a middle class emerges. I am thinking that means a stable government. No Soviet invasion, no Taliban and that means no haven for Osama Bin Laden. Of course we would not see the US invasion. On Othertimelines a fellow member thought that Afganistan would become a third world kleptocracy with ethnic civil wars. So what does everyone else think?
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