Now I pose this issue:
Afghanistan is in the midst of years of war, some by outright invasion and others by rooting out villians. It was, however, of no importance to the occupier..just a place. Now it is minerally important. Our very laptops and rechargable batteries could take off from this find as we now have other sources, Chile being first or primary. But finding this begs the question of American interests always always always being dictated to on some level by business interests.
Is a trillion dollars worth of lithium worth fighting the fight to turn it over to the Afghans or worth fighting the fight to protect the money from going to the Taliban or worth fighting the fight so we can profit from it. See what is coming?