Posted on 09/17/2001 6:30:00 PM PDT by Hammerhead
Freeps, while sitting bedside with my 5 year old waiting for her to finish puzzles I got the 'brilliant' idea of how to possibly handle the Afghan situation - an idea to far out in left field, that there is NO WAY the Taliban bottom feeders could figure out how to handle it!!! Check this out: 1st we actively side with the rebels in the north and have them start a campaign to join their side. "Oh, no kidding Hammerhead you big goof. Like that hasn't already be thought of!!!", you say. But here's the BEUTIFUL part. All the while the rebels are recruiting, start BOMBING the citizens (women, children, men) of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, with........here goes..... blankets, comic books, toys, food, reading glasses, toiletries, all the basic good things in life. That would throw the Taliban in FITS!!!!!! just friggin keep bombing the country with the stuff!!! The general population would say hey T-men, F-off were going the Gringo's and the boys up north that are trying to get rid of your sorry asses!!! Am I a kook or what?
How did a callow youth such as yourself ever find out about one of our nation's deepest, darkest, Cold War Secrets?
Dateline: Federal German Republic, The Fulda Gap. 196?
Outnumbered hundreds to one in armor, aircraft, artillery, and troops, we knew the Warsaw Pact forces had a chink in their armor: Logistics.
In 3 or 4 days, they would be out of food,and fuel. We knew their plan was to live off the land, and just leave behind vehicles as they broke down and ran dry.
The REMFs came up with tara, tara! Operation Playboy (oops, now you're in danger and I face Leavenworth). Giant aluminum crates. Full of food, liquor, cigarettes (doped, of course) Playboy Magazines, Soda, Books. Propaganda.As the unstoppable, but ravenous Communist horde surged forward, we were to drop these picnic baskets along the front and behind their lines.
Theory: Drinking the booze, eating the food, smooking the dope, and then getting all randy from the capitalist soft porn, the dreaded Bolsheviks would be easy (pardon the expression) meat for our weary, but pure-in-heart forces. You see, Hammer, they would be distracted, while we were to be focused.
Hammer, your updated version of this fabulous plan has merit. I am going to recommend that you be dropped with the packages to explain their use. Piece of cake. Be like working at Wal-Mart. Adios.
The problem is that Clinton-era efforts at "nation-building" were so ineffective as to discredit the concept -- we need to pinpoint just what went wrong. (Was it just the obvious problem of Clinton going for short-term photo ops at the expense of long-term results, or something more?)
This one puzzles me....the guy has three wives, all male friends and a goat herd, what position is left to get embarrassed about?
Except when they did it, the dolls had explosives in them.
There are a lot of cripples in Afghanistan.
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