AFGHANISTAN ROCKS

Last night the US and the Pentagon announced that they have just uncovered vast amounts of minerals in Afghanistan, possibly worth TRILLIONS of US Dollars…AND the US has volunteered to help the Afghan government extract the minerals, because,-get this!:- …: Afghanistan’s infrastructure is inadequate to support major mining work

Allow me to share a couple of simple reactions to this bit of cozy news:

1) W T F?!!! (What Terrific Find...)
Ok…
2) I now realize how industrious the war complex is: as we invade and occupy, we also engage in altruistic geological inquisition; it makes sense, because the craters created by our bombs are ready made geological research sites, thus greatly diminishing the need for extensive digging; furthermore, the findings could greatly help the primitive locals. And…as the primary invaders we have automatic permission and primary rights to do whatever geological poking, excavating, experimenting, we like. We are indeed the deciders and who knows, we may find even additional buried wealth, to help the locals.

3) Amazing technology and precision instrumentation and brilliance of minds we have, between the Pentagon and the Army…to find, isolate and identify with precision, buried mineral treasures, estimate its locations, depths, cubic portent and economic value, and in a distant land no less!; however, we still cannot plug an oil leak in our own country

4) Equally fascinating is that the US government expressed the estimated value of the Afghanistan minerals in US Dollars (I guess we already own it…)…at the very least, why not Euros, since the Euro is stronger than the dollar?...wait a minute, there is a currency in Afghanistan, too! OK, OK, it’s about real strength and our real strength is GREED, which is really stronger than anything; so it has to be in dollars! …sometimes I forget.

We didn't know it was a bus! So we fired and killed 8 civilians, wounding 18

The American Military led command expects us to believe the following:
"The American-led military command in Kabul called the killings a 'tragic loss of life' and said troops fired not knowing the vehicle was a bus ". - As reported today in the NYT

Wait a minute! I thought we could pinpoint a mouse with night vision and from miles away and today in broad daylight , at closer range, WE DID NOT KNOW WE WERE FIRING ON A BUS!"... so 5 civilians were killed and 18 wounded.
From this photo, it looks like a bus to me!!!
I am embarassed as a US Citizen and speechles as a human being. 
The audacity of the above comment leaves me dumfounded!

History Lessons Worth Repeating because it seems they were never learned:

Lesson:

1) Money does not buy peace

2) Occupation always loses

-Current Example /Case Study-

Background: Last month (MARCH): we launched the biggest offensive operation/invasion in Marja, Afghanistan. We also began paying locals in an effort to buy their  loyalty/pay for damages caused by our invasion.

- March 2010: Results Reported at the time-

"This is the most successful operation in Afghanistan to date, in driving out the Taliban and winning the hearts and minds of the people... The Taliban has been driven out by our focused, surgically precise invasion"

- April 4th 2010 from Marja as reported by US Military on the ground -

"The Taliban have reseized control and momentum in a lot of ways"

 -Major James Coffman, third battallion 6th Marines

Will we ever learn?