I don't know what the perfect word is to describe the reserved happiness I feel on behalf of the many average people of Afghanistan who just want a functional country with a modern infrastructure bought by a stable economy, shot through with a steely bolt of panic that the very discovery which might allow that very thing will instead bring a whole new fresh hell for them as colonialists and warlords and corrupt members of their own government stake out positions around the vast reserves of minerals which have been discovered in Afghanistan by Pentagon officials and US geologists.
I'm excitascared for you...?
Meanwhile, I'm just flat scared for us, because there is no other way to describe an internal Pentagon memo saying that Afghanistan could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium" besides terrifying, given the current architects of US foreign policy.
[H/T to eastsidekate.]
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