{"id":193312,"date":"2008-12-26T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T05:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/26\/afghan-erection-update\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T05:14:00","slug":"afghan-erection-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/26\/afghan-erection-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Erection Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a typo.  They CIA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/25\/AR2008122500931.html?nav=rss_nation\/special\">using Viagra to win friends and influence tribal leaders in Afthanistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Four blue pills. Viagra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take one of these. You&#8217;ll love it,&#8221; the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n<p>The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes &#8212; followed by a request for more pills. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least this cannot be turned into an IED.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is not the Onion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a typo. They CIA is using Viagra to win friends and influence tribal leaders in Afthanistan: 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1153,1075,1076,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-afghanistan","category-sex","category-terrorism","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}