As Teddy Roosevelt counseled, we should walk softly and carry a hard stick:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one of these. You’ll love it,” the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.
I’ve never been so proud of my country.
More:
and what we plan to do, this is just what we need—more men running around with hard dicks looking for a place to put them.
Yeah, pride. Funny.
Umm.. This is a lot cheaper and morally sound than a shipment of arms…
There is something to men being sexually satisfied being less violent… no?
Then again, there might be (no pun intended, I swear) blow back: for every happy warlord there are 4 FURIOUS wives (‘What?!!? AGAIN?!!? Damn those infidel dogs!’).
one point to be made, though….where will they put those dicks? It’s one thing to assume it’ll be wives, but powerful men believe rules (like being faithful to spouses) don’t apply to them. Or…they might distribute their bounty among their bodyguards.
In any case, I expect to see a spike in reported rapes, or in ‘honour killings’ of girls raped by these men.
Man with stiff dick…gotta put it someplace, no?
Let me follow this line of reason to it’s conclusion:
To acheive peace now, we just send in an army of Warlord-loving nyphomaniacs, right?
There is a comment below which, rightfully shuts down this line of ‘humor’.
Although, I gotta say: Without humor as a release, I don’t know what, even more insensitive or destructive acts I’d be contributing to the endless violence. And that is serious.
“now look what you made me do!!!”
“nothing worse than assault with a dead weapon…”
I do appreciate the humour in this bit o’ news, it’s just that I tend to lose that when the negatives outweigh the positives.
Now, the republican thrashing in MN over the (more and more) probable Franken win….that’s funny…..
Read. Enjoy. It’s really funny.
http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/03-13/
http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/cia-death-squads-killing-with-%E2%80%9Cimpunity%E2%80%9D-in-a
fghanistan/3536/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/11/afghanistan.usa
Don’t worry, it’s just collateral damage.
Make Love Not War….If only the Neocons who invaded Iraq would’ve taken those “blue” pills.
what makes you think they didn’t?
does not “love” make.
Have we so little left that we can export is this what it has come to?
I guess I answered my own question.
“We’ll give you the blue pills. You give us the opium.” Sounds like the same ol’ CIA to me.
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed, and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes.“
Morpheus describes the effects of the two pills to Neo