Hearts, minds, and other body parts.

If you have an insurrection lasting more than four hours, who do you call?

And what are they giving to the wives? It may be that the young bride was quite happy that her husband was too tired to be interested.

The Horizontal Mambo vs. waterboarding. Should prove to be a more effective approach.

Now that's what I call winning friends the hard way. [rimshot]

Got to love get into the box thinking....

> Four blue pills. Viagra.

Points for innovative thinking. But don't Afghani women have enough to put up with?

yeah, did he give the wives something? I can't imagine 4 young Afghani women were all that unhappy that their 60 year old husband was out for the count.

Yeesh. Who cares what the women want as long as the man got his?

We have Viagra, they have opium. Endless possibilities.

And how, exactly, did they determine he was in "good health?" Was the intelligence official an MD? Did the intelligence official have a prescription for the Viagra? Why does he need Viagra in a war zone?

Oh, I get it. Stupid savages can be bought and sold with blue colored beads, I mean pills, and disease contaminated blankets.

That's what we mean by exporting democaracy and murican values. Now we can send Rick Warren to
Afghanistan to propose Proposition 9 because, marriage between a man a woman a woman a woman and a girl is sinful and comparable to same sex marriage and it must be stopped.

Shame on us.

this is our enemy, radical islam, at work. liberals so easily ignore what we are up against.
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/20081225200812250225081731635eb98/Terrorists-sexually-Humiliated-guests-before-killing-them

The president should send Guckert to Afghanistan to teach the CIA some of his favorite techniques.

JKE, do you think that Islamists have the market corned on that sort of thing? Take a look at the violent, bloody drug war going on on our own southern border.

Shiny beads & blankets (and diseases), oh my.

I would like to know more about the program since most CIA efforts are miss directed. Such measures are temporary inducements in the southern part of the country where the Taliban operate and are quickly forgotten when the coalition forces leave. We have been building roads, schools and other facilities in Afghanistan for 5 years now and the level of cooperation from Afghan Tribal leaders has not increased significantly. We are traveling down the same road as the Soviets in Afghanistan with eventually the same result.

Viagra for information. This is whack, man.

Wouldn't that be INSIDE-the-box thinking?

I'll show myself out.

I'm rolling my eyes at the comments that this is exploitation with shiny beads. This is called negotiation. Quid pro quo. We want something, they want something. Should we take what we want by force then? By asking pretty please? Why is it a problem when we give them tangibles instead of cold, hard cash?

I'm right behind you, Grandjester.

I can't imagine 4 young Afghani women were all that unhappy that their 60 year old husband was out for the count. -- Personal Failure, @9:51

OTOH... The more sons you give him, the higher your own status within the family. And how are you supposed to give him sons if his asparagus is overcooked and limp?

There's always two sides to every coin...

Wait, I thought that Moslems were violent, scary, brown people who shouldn't be encouraged to outbreed good white Murkin' Christians, and that polygamy led to man on dog action. Did I miss the latest GOP revisionist memo?

/scours the net for the leaked CIA report: "Make Love, Not War: the Damn Dirty Hippies Actually Were On to Something"

Clearly a genius-level brainstorm, this.
Cause of course the Taliban or Pakistani security forces could never get access to Viagra, nor would they ever be exposed to the concept, as it is cleverly secreted away on the splash page of the WaPo website.
Or was that The Onion?

Is there anyone outside of Karzai's circle who is NOT Taliban? Aren't there any people in Afghanistan who are just sheep herders or war lords or something?

If the whole country is Taliban, then we oughta leave them alone and just focus on getting Al Qaeda...if they're not the entire population of Pakistan.