Three Reasons we are in Afghanistan: 1. The Afghanistan Pipeline, a 1,000-mile natural gas pipeline whose proposed route cuts through the heartland of the Taliban insurgency: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/12/world/la-fg-afghanistan-bombings-20101212 2. The ‘previously unknown’ deposits of AT LEAST $1 Trillion worth of minerals — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium: […]