All those riches and no one to take them

1.5 billion barrels of oil, 2 percent of the world’s copper, rich iron ore and nobody will bid on the stuff.

“(T)he 2012 Transparency International ‘TI Corruption Index’ ranks Afghanistan ‘174/176 (Tied for last place with Somalia and North Korea.)’”

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/1-5-billion-barrels-of-oil-and-no-takers.html/?a=viewall

Ah, the vicissitudes of murderous Islamists and a government that functions on bribes and payoffs.

Even China is backing away, at least for now.