The War for Minerals in Afghanistan
June 14, 2010 at 15:44 PM EDT
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense,” fellow Baltimorean Tom Clancy once said. The biggest headline in the world today reads like a chapter straight from one of his spy novels: “U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan,” trumpets The New York Times this morning. Turns out there’s [...]