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U.S. Spy Agency Curries Favor With Afghan Chieftans By Offering Little Blue Pills As Bribes

(Washington Post) 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.

Four blue pills. Viagra.

"Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.

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, followed by a request for more pills.

For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

In their efforts to win over notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains, the officials say, the agency's operatives have used a variety of personal services. These include pocketknives and tools, medicine or surgeries for ailing family members, toys and school equipment, tooth extractions, travel visas, and, occasionally, pharmaceutical enhancements for aging patriarchs with slumping libidos, the officials said.

(Full article here).

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ORIGINAL: Raechard

Considering the age of the average tribal leaders wives I don't think that's a good idea. A limp dick is nature’s way of telling you to stop your sexual abuse in some circumstances. We know about these things we consider abuses and we still aid them how is that for intelligence?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/49b628915db0cb6bbecc657d72670ac6.htm

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Your link is dead and your point is probably moot because erections aren't evil, Raechard - ignorance is evil, and the Taliban fosters ignorance itself. The Viagra is a tool to help usher in a more modern world there, complete with rights for women and a general education for everyone, and any "abuse" by tribal elders would probably occur there in some form or another with or without Viagra enhanced erections.

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Without the intelligence that the CIA is getting for their little blue pills the Taliban would be stronger there, and they're horribly infamous for going well beyond mere "abuse" of women and girls.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

Presumably the idea is to produce many fine upstanding members in the community.

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Viagra is a tool to usher in a modern world i.e. because we have Viagra technology we are superior to them is that your logic?