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In a rare piece of good news for the country, it was recently discovered that Afghanistan, far from being the useless sinkhole we all assumed, actually possesses some of the world’s largest untapped reserves of precious metals. The Afghan government estimates that the resources, which include gold, copper, and iron, as well as all sorts of other, weirder, rarer minerals, have an estimated net worth of about $3 trillion dollars; an estimate which has predictably generated all sorts of giddy glee across the poor nation.
It would have probably generated some giddy glee in Washington as well, had not President Karzai made the somewhat odd decree that priority contracts for the mining and extraction of the minerals will be given to Japan, and not the US.
Karzai has been having a number of high-profile spats with the Americans lately, whom he feels are undermining his leadership, so it’s hard not to see his present to Japan as a vindictive snub. Nothing like throwing around your country’s natural resources to remind everyone who’s boss.
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