Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2004-12-15 14:24:00
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What in Helmand's going on?!
Looked at my friends list, only to notice a particular sentence from someone who dabbles in Military Intelligence *cough* Spook! *cough* to a contractor...

"your team is going to die if they take this job in Helmand..."

Helmand?! What the hell is Helmand?!?! Is it yet another base in Iraq?

(google, google)

Ahh... I see. That *other* war... the one where the central government's military is outnumbered 5-1 by the warlords alone, and where those traitors from France and Germany risk their soldier's lives every day.

But why would they be killed there?
(google news, google news)

Poll #403960 Why would anyone die in Afghanistan?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18

And the answer is...

View Answers

poppies...
3 (16.7%)

poppies...
4 (22.2%)

poppies...
7 (38.9%)

poppies...
4 (22.2%)


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[info]noressa
2004-12-15 10:52 pm UTC (link)
I thought I remembered reading something along those lines earlier this decade... Though it looks like there is another holy war being mounted against it now...

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[info]noressa
2004-12-15 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Gah. Fixing the first link.

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[info]perse
2004-12-15 11:04 pm UTC (link)
mmm.... opium.

d*mmit. I should've lived in Paris in the twenties.

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[info]insomnia
2004-12-15 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Be sure to get some before it's mixed with agent orange. ;-)

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mmm.... opium...
[info]taosbat
2004-12-16 07:35 pm UTC (link)
or Berlin anytime...

Opium exports are booming in Afghanistan, oil exports are booming in Iraq, too, but in more of an upish sort of way...

One way or another, it's all up in smoke.

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[info]perse
2004-12-17 03:25 am UTC (link)
*sighs*

Das ist nicht sehr gut.

Yes, Berlin, must go. Also Amsterdam.

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[info]taosbat
2004-12-17 03:45 am UTC (link)
...Das ist nicht sehr gut....

Warum?

Wohin gehst Berlin und Amsterdam? Wohin gehst das appetit für opiate? Wohin gehst wirklichkeit?

(Please pardon my rusty deutsch)

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[info]perse
2004-12-17 04:13 am UTC (link)
nein, nein

My deutsch is much much more rusty than yours. lol. It's been ten years. I could look your questions up on babelfish, but I'm too lazy tonight. ;)

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[info]taosbat
2004-12-17 04:30 am UTC (link)
Das ist nicht sehr gut

Why?

Where do Berlin & Amsterdam go? Where does the appetite for opiates go? Where does reality go?

My german is pretty hacked; but, that's the gist of it.

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[info]perse
2004-12-17 04:45 am UTC (link)
lol.

Berlin and Amsterdam are Europe, which is far from America, and in Amsterdam, at least, the morality is different than here. Opiates? Never tried them, but want to, for some odd reason. Maybe I just want to be able to say I have.

Reality... that's a very open ended question. lol

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[info]taosbat
2004-12-17 05:04 am UTC (link)
Well, I thought you said, "Yes, Berlin, must go. Also Amsterdam." in reply to my comment implying that opiates were commonplace in my experience of Berlin, etc.

So, my question to you was meant to provoke discussion about the demand end of the supply of Afghanistan's bumper crop of opium poppies. Berlin & Amsterdam, & the social conditions they may be metaphors for, aren't going anywhere. The human desire for opiates isn't going anywhere. Reality isn't going anywhere.

It's a swell rush. Better than crack. Stick with that wicked pot they're selling these days & tell your grandchildren you heard it from someone else. They might be healthier.

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[info]taosbat
2004-12-17 05:08 am UTC (link)
I meant to say, to my certain knowledge, after our return from Berlin, one of my old buds went down with the Mexican Brown. It wasn't good, last I heard. I think it took him out.

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[info]wertz
2004-12-15 11:40 pm UTC (link)
I would have gone with "all of the above", but you didn't provide that option...

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[info]lafinjack
2004-12-16 05:45 am UTC (link)
The only way to win is not to play.

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[info]jk_fabiani
2004-12-16 11:18 pm UTC (link)
Bullseye.

War is a collective measure of losses. Less than zero sum gain.

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[info]jk_fabiani
2004-12-16 11:17 pm UTC (link)
I hear Bayer invented herion. NO idea, but...

Hey, I didn't want to bomb Afghanistan on September 10th, or 12th.

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