Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:38:53 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: US-information warfare & KLA




On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hasan Lascelle wrote:

> Reminds me of the heady :) days when we organised the "Smoke the
> Russians out of Afghanistan" campaign. We were fearless, we were
> committed.....and you know what? It worked. In fact it has always been
> my theory that those Russian bods developed such a taste for that good
> afghani black hash, that they just got too mellow to sustain all that
> uptight Stalinism. 

It wasn't the hashish that got them.  There was a HUGE number of rooskie
soldiers who got hooked on opium/morphine there and an even bigger number
who discovered the profiteering side of capitalism and smuggled opiates
into the U$$R.  It was one of those remarkable similarities to the U$ and
the SE Asian war.


carpo