Accra, Ghana//-Afghanistan has a total land area of 652,860 km² with a population of about 40 million people. It is a country that boarders six other countries and has an untapped oil reserve of over 2billion barrels.
Afghanistan’s untapped resources include chromium, copper, gold, iron ore, lead and zinc, lithium, marble, precious and semiprecious stones, sulfur and talc among many other minerals, worth over $3trillion.
With other energy resources such as natural gas and petroleum, Afghanistan certainly has more than enough to turn the country into a modern “first class” country.
It has been falsely accused of being the jihadists hub and a hot spot for terrorists activities. This is what has been cited as the pretext for UNs intervention and America’s recent military presence there and their desire to mortgage the lives of their troops.
Over the years, the world powers (US, UK and Soviet Union/Russia) have struggled for the control of this piece of territory thereby reducing it to one of the world’s longest battle grounds.
They have taken turns to go in and out of Afghanistan to test their lethal, most sophisticated weapons of destruction. That country has known no peace.
Most of their adult fighters today were born into the state of war and they grew up as warriors to defend their country against “unjust invasions of their sovereignty and cultural rape”
At the last count, a conservatively estimated number of 32,734 foreign combat troops lost their lives fighting in Afghanistan in a war that, neither the combatants nor their families understand or support.
United States of America spent over $2trillion in a space of 20years in Afghanistan killing innocent civilians and children.
Let’s take note of the fact that, in US foreign policy, war is business and they profit from it.
One good day, the Afghan militia (the resisting forces) backed by the power of the ordinary people with their bare hands overran the puppet regime and chased out their heavily armed American protectors.
Afghanistan deserves the right to self-determination and we hope this is the beginning of the end of foreign occupation of that country.
Let them rebuild themselves.
By S. Abdul-Wahab, Social-Enterprise Africa
