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MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR!
MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR!
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One of the chants to come from the Vietnam anti-war movement was the memorable “make love, not war.” That sentiment has resurfaced in a different but equally stimulating context, thanks to some creative people within U.S. intelligence.
Government is famous for the ways in which it wastes our tax money, but this one expenditure appears to be well spent. Officers with the Central Intelligence Agency have been handing out little blue Viagra pills to Afghan tribal leaders, some of whom have more than one wife.
According to a story in the Washington Post, a CIA officer gave four of the pills to an Afghan leader in his 60s who has four wives. “Take one of these,” said the CIA man, “you’ll love it.”
The officer who described the meeting said that he returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception, and the Afghan chieftain had a big grin on his face. The officer said the man gave up lots of information about Taliban movements and supply routes. He then asked for more pills.
“Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people, whether it’s building a school or handing out Viagra,” said one longtime CIA operative.
This is surely a better approach to extracting information than waterboarding. Not many would describe consensual sex as torture.
Handing out Viagra pills to aging Afghan warlords is a strategy for reducing, uh, tension. If Afghan leaders are in bed, they are less likely to be helping the Taliban, or firing weapons.
This is the opposite approach to that described in the ancient Greek comedy “Lysistrata,” in which women on both sides of a war withhold sex from their husbands until they make peace. Human nature being what it is, that only works in fiction. But in our sex-obsessed culture, frequent sexual activity might render warring males incapable or unwilling to fight. As that great philosopher Mae West once observed, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”
The CIA had the wrong strategy for eliminating Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in the early 1960s. Instead of hiring Mafia members to assassinate Castro, they should have slipped sex-enhancement drugs in his food and drink.
Would Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be as big a bother if he were popping Viagra? He might then not feel the need to develop nuclear weapons. And by the way, have you noticed that most of the world’s dictators throughout history have been short men? Short men are also generally believed to lack other physical attributes about which men are overly self-conscious. Such men sometimes seek to overcompensate by bullying others to prove they have what, in fact, they lack. If they were better able to perform in the bedroom, perhaps they would be less bombastic on the world stage.
Adolf Hitler was 5 feet 8 inches tall. Josef Stalin was short and variously reported to be between 5-4 and 5-6. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is 5-4. Mao Zedong was 5-11, possibly the tallest of the modern despots. We know that Hitler and Mao had sexual hang-ups. Could all dictators share the same problem? Would Viagra, or something similar, have lessened the possibility of forced famines, war, the Holocaust and other mass killings? Were these caused at least in part by pent-up feelings of sexual inadequacy?
The alternative to mass distribution of Viagra is to let women run the world for a while and see if they can make something better of it then the men have done. Meanwhile, “Viva Viagra!” if it keeps Afghan warlords off the battlefield and keeps them in the bedroom while providing, in between sessions, useful information about the Taliban.
I wonder how Osama bin Laden would react to those little pills? He probably wouldn’t take them. He’s reported to be 6 feet 5 inches tall.
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Posted by David Wilson, January 02, 2009 1:52:00==================== Cal Thomas, I found your article 'Make Love Not War' quite interesting. If you look at the situation today in the Middle East, it\'s very clear that these people simply do not engage in, or have a fulfilling sex life. As a young child I learned that I was forced to undergo a sexually crippling surgery. This "surgery" was supposedly done to protect me. Throughout the years I've learned some horrifying facts about this surgery that led me to believe that this type of surgery is what is responsible for a lot of our problems today. By that I refer back to your article Make Love Not War. The endorphins that your brain releases for sexual pleasure is the same endorphins that your brain releases during violence. So if you cannot achieve your pleasure from sexual intercourse, you can darn sure achieve this pleasure from violence and pain. This is very evident in the middle east where they have been at war with one another for generations. In America back in the 1860's society had a hard time dealing with our children masturbating. Masturbation was sighted as a great evil and actions were taken in an attempt to end this evil. Young girls were having carbolic acid placed on their clitoris in order to stop this evil. For boys, they were strapped to a board and had their foresk__ removed. This procedure was done to deaden the males glan in a misguided attempt to stop them from masturbating. Sure, we could still masturbate, but the natural ability and pleasure from masturbating was greatly hindered due to the removal of the ridged band of sexual nerves. The ridged band of sexual nerves are located in the foresk__. These nerves run from the foresk__ to the brain. So if you remove the foresk__, you also remove the sender. Which means your brain will no longer receive these sexually pleasing impulses. In order to fully understand the sexual function of the foresk__, I suggest you read the following. Interview with Dr. John R. Taylor - Anatomic Pathologist http://www.intact.ca/taylor.html The Ridged Band of Sexual Nerves http://research.cirp.org/ The foresk__ is not a useless piece of flesh as some want us to believe. It is there to provide the male with sexual pleasure as well as to protect the glans. Oprah did a show last year where 70% of women in America do not care to have vaginal sexual intercourse due to it being painful and discomforting. The reason vaginal sexual intercourse is painful is due to the loss of the foresk__ which works as a sliding mechanism for the glans. Go read. You'll understand why the removal of the foresk__ is utter insanity. Getting back to your article. Answer this. Who are the most violent people in the world today? The answer is simple. The genital mutilators are the most violent people in the world. Who are these people? Jews, Muslims, and of course the Americans where 55% of our infant males are circumcised today. So needless the say, the violence will continue. We have laws in our country that prohibit FGM (female genital mutilation). But yet these laws fail to protect our boys from this insanity. Which makes these FGM laws unconstitutional. FYI - I have Nobel Laureates, human rights activists, and great people such as Dr. Jonas Salk, (polio vaccine creator) that agree, that all genital mutilations need to end. Mr. Thomas, I would welcome the opportunity to speak with you concerning this insanity. I have been demonstrating in DC every year for the last 16 years. We've educated thousands of visitors to the US Capitol. People from other non-cutting countries are appalled that we are still cutting our boys. There is not one medical organization in the world that supports routine infant circumcision. The foresk__ isn't life threatening, people are. Thanks for your time, David Wilson 321-243-0178 Stop Infant Circumcision Society www.StopInfantCircumcision.org 16th Annual Demonstration/March Against Infant Circumcision March 24th - 30th 2009 U.S. Capitol * Washington D.C. Learn the truth....save your son from this insanity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkqrAwASLc Doctors Opposing Circumcision Statement on HIV/Circumcision http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/info/HIVStatement.html www.MGMbill.org Bill to end male genital mutilation Interview with Dr. John R. Taylor - Anatomic Pathologist http://www.intact.ca/taylor.html The Ridged Band of Sexual Nerves http://research.cirp.org/ ASHLEY MONTAGU RESOLUTION TO END GENITAL MUTILATION OF CHILDREN WORLDWIDE http://montagunocircpetition.org Sign the Montagu petition to join thousands of supporters including Dr. Jonas Salk and Nobel Laureates Dr. Francis Crick (Medicine 1962), Dr. George Wald (Medicine 1967), and Betty Williams (Peace 1977). Historical Video of our March Against Male Circumcision 2001 www.intactivist.org/march.rm A Short History of Circumcision in the U.S. in Physicians\' Own Words http://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/shorthis.htm Fathers Day 93\' my two headed volkswagon van in front of white house http://www.stopinfantcircumcision.org/david/2freaky.jpg
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