How should Kabul use Afghanistan's mineral wealth to help the people of Afghanistan? The good folks at CNN.com were kind enough to publish an article I wrote responding to the significant, if not new, opportunity provided by the estimate of up to $1trillion dollars worth of minerals, including such important ones as copper and lithium, in the territory of Afghanistan.
For me, the usefulness of the announcement is that it can focus the minds in Washington and Kabul on the economic endgame for Afghanistan. Luckily, I understand that some folks in both governments are taking a good hard look at these proposals.
Here's the piece: Afghan Minerals Could Turn War's Tide.
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