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Create an economy. it goes to the elite and the power brokers who keep it for themselves. >> a warlord system, there is a lot of money in war, contracting, supplying, shipping, and if you have been in power, you keep those contracts for yourself and you build neighborhoods like this and maybe you don't even live here. you live somewhere else, in a foreign country. >> this is what it's like in kabul. the exact same dynamic we saw in kandahar where you're talking with counterinsurgency doctrine soaked military officers who are incredibly smart, have far-reaching thinking about this sort of thing...

Avoid that because afghanistan really lives on a warlord system and you're going to have a lot richer warlords if this happens. but i think what jack said is absolutely important. there is only one major road in afghanistan, the ring road. you need all kinds of infrastructure. right now to compare, this is a trillion dollars in minerals we're talking about in a country whose gdp is $12 billion a year. so they don't have the money to really build this infrastructure, and then you have the second big problem. unlike nigeria, afghanistan doesn't have an ocean. to get the minerals out. they have t...