It's a felony to provide controlled substances to another individual. Federal agents shouldn't be felons. I am old fashion that way I guess.

Of course if you're a C.I.A. agent already involved in the Afghanistan opium business it's just water over the board anyway.

Is this REAL? No, not the Pepsi ad but the Viagra part. I've seen it around but it seems like either spam or just a b.s. story that has been spreading.

Whole thing IS funny but crazy too! Everyone is either advertising for Pepsi or Coke! Save the can, drink water in a Clean Canteen! :-)

I would have approached the wives and said:

Listen,
I am about to give Methuselah over there some pills that will have him chasing you around the tent 24 hours a day seven days a week. If I was you I would start talking.

The C.I.A. agent would have got four times the information on Al Qaeda.

Brian:

A fascinating example that the small blue pill, smartly and precisely applied by indigenous intelligence operatives, may indeed be mightier than the unbridled steel mace of American military power bluntly applied.

After all, have we learned nothing from the history of over two hundred years of covert geostrategic maneuvering in Afghanistan amongst the great powers?

Have the covert operation types forgotten the hard-fought lessons of Afghani history regarding Russo-British “black-ops� rivalry immortalized in Rudyard Kipling's masterpiece, "Kim", written more than one hundred and eight years ago?

Haven’t our current crop of American political elites, be they Democrats, Republicans or Independents, gone to the movies and seen Tom Hank’s masterful performance in the great film “Charlie Wilson’s War?�

If not, then perhaps soon after his Inauguration, Mr. Obama should invite Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi, and Republican leaders McConnell and Boehner, over to a private screening of Charlie Wilson’s War in the White House movie theater.

In the privacy of that venue, Barrack and the Congressionals could view the film together, share hot popcorn and kibbutz openly over the historical lessons the United States should have learned from the last time we played at the "Great Game" in Afghanistan.

There is no question that Charlie Wilson's masterful application of Democratic vote-trading provided over $1 billion dollars of American taxpayer money necessary to purchase munitions covertly for the Mujahadeen so that they could bring the Red Army to its knees in Afghanistan.

Nowhere was that more successfully demonstrated than in Northwestern Afghanistan, where the “Lion of Panjashir,� Ahmed Shah Massoud, courageously led the Northern Alliance. And let us not forget that Massoud was so successful in opposing Wahabbi extremism, that Osama Bin Laden sent Al-Qaeda suicide bomber operatives, disguised as Islamic video-journalists, to kill Massoud just a few days before the 9-11 attacks against the United States.

In effect, American billions, combined with Saudi billions, was used to purchase Cold-war era Soviet military equipment surreptiously from avaricious Egyptian and Israeli arms merchants which in turn were selectively dispensed to Afghani Mujahadeen groups by the Pakistani ISI.

While it was true that these covert operations were decisive in so bloodying the Red Army that Gorbachev decided to withdraw ignominiously from Russia’s Vietnam, the hidden price of this Cold War victory was the unholy alliance between rogue elements of the Pakistani ISI, Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which ultimately resulted in the creation of the Taliban.

Further, at that time, when the United States could have parlayed the Mujahadeen’s military victory over the former Soviet Union into democratic nation-building assistance for the Afghanis, American political elites, Democrats and Republicans alike, walked away shamelessly.

Probably because news videos involving the construction of secular schools for both Afghani boys and girls, as well as targeted agricultural and economic assistance are less sexy to their respective political constituencies and special interest contributors than blowing-up Russian military columns.

Charlie Wilson himself said it best when he said, “..the part that I'll take to my grave with guilt is that . . . I didn't stay the course and stay there and push and drive the other members of Congress nuts pushing for a mini-Marshall Plan," he said. "And I let myself be frustrated and discouraged by the fact that (the Afghan) leadership was so fragmented that we were unable to do the things we needed to do, like clear the mines, like furnish them millions of tons of fertilizer to be able to replant the crops."

Pity, perhaps a few billions of targeted American economic assistance aid, well spent then, would have minimized hundreds of billions being spent by American taxpayers responding to the 9-11 disaster, and nearly one trillion and still counting, for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

But alas, once the Russian Bear was knocked to its knees, the American political idols went on to something else, in part because they demonstrated that they are rank geostrategic amateurs when it comes to playing at Kipling’s Great Game.

If Mr. Obama fails to heed the hard lessons of Afghani history, and the Pashtunistan Queen makes her dreadful appearance on the geostrategic chessboard, then within months of his putative Inauguration, beginning with Arriana Huffington and the Daily Kos bloggers, then moving on to the Main Stream Media, they will all begin calling this "Mr. Obama's Vietnam."

For the sake of Afghani people, their putative democracy, American national security interests, and in fact peace and stability in that region of the world, let us hope that Mr. Obama remembers George Santayana’s admonition about the lessons of history, “those who forget the lessons of history, are condemned to repeat them..�

NostraDemus

Living in a country with no liberty is not living.

You're right voting for Elton Gallegly is insane.