Comments on: Women http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/ The “culture” that has evolved here isn’t conducive to sissies Thu, 9 Sep 2010 05:14:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: medium john http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47174 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:24:42 +0000 http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47174 Monopoly... heh Monopoly… heh

]]> by: yup http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47148 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:30:46 +0000 http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47148 Gus, Mlah likely is refering to the same sorts of rumors one might hear on a college campus or in a night club in the U.S. You want something? There's a way to get it. I hear about military folks coming back from vacation in Amsterdam, for example, who get popped in Operation Golden Flow. But a handful of such people does not translate into a massive or chronic problem for the military. Sheesh. You are trying to make some sort of issue out of this. Turn some rumors that Mlah heard -- which as I note are common to any part of our society -- into some sort of massive heroin problem faced by the U.S. military as a result of its operations in Afghanistan. Which of course is all George Bush's fault! I read that article in Salon. By the way, I'm sure Salon prints only scientifically verified and critiqued articles, as does the New Republic. The author cites 30,000 opiate addicts in VA care -- most of whom are Vietnam-era veterans. The article cites 9,000 Afghanistan-era veterans seeking treatment for addiction problems, without identifying the sorts of addiction (alcohol? gambling? pr0n? caffeine?). The article cites anonymous veterans, Reservists, and active troops for their admissions of heroin use, or their knowledge of other soldiers' heroin use. ("Scott Thomas" has made charges and other soldiers supposedly verified the veracity of those stories to the New republic, too. The Army investigation says otherwise.) In short, I fear that there are a few soldiers out there who dip into the drug culture, but I do not believe there is a widespread problem as you and the author suggest. (Unlike in Vietnam, the military has random drug testing that it carries out even in combat areas.) Heroin is ubiquitous in Afghanistan, which is all the author's forays into the bazaar proved, and that is no suprise given that Afghanistan produces 90% of the global supply. That's like going into some shops in Atlanta and then claiming there is a Coca-Cola addiction problem in that city. Gus, Mlah likely is refering to the same sorts of rumors one might hear on a college campus or in a night club in the U.S. You want something? There’s a way to get it. I hear about military folks coming back from vacation in Amsterdam, for example, who get popped in Operation Golden Flow. But a handful of such people does not translate into a massive or chronic problem for the military.

Sheesh. You are trying to make some sort of issue out of this. Turn some rumors that Mlah heard — which as I note are common to any part of our society — into some sort of massive heroin problem faced by the U.S. military as a result of its operations in Afghanistan. Which of course is all George Bush’s fault!

I read that article in Salon. By the way, I’m sure Salon prints only scientifically verified and critiqued articles, as does the New Republic. The author cites 30,000 opiate addicts in VA care — most of whom are Vietnam-era veterans. The article cites 9,000 Afghanistan-era veterans seeking treatment for addiction problems, without identifying the sorts of addiction (alcohol? gambling? pr0n? caffeine?). The article cites anonymous veterans, Reservists, and active troops for their admissions of heroin use, or their knowledge of other soldiers’ heroin use. (”Scott Thomas” has made charges and other soldiers supposedly verified the veracity of those stories to the New republic, too. The Army investigation says otherwise.) In short, I fear that there are a few soldiers out there who dip into the drug culture, but I do not believe there is a widespread problem as you and the author suggest. (Unlike in Vietnam, the military has random drug testing that it carries out even in combat areas.) Heroin is ubiquitous in Afghanistan, which is all the author’s forays into the bazaar proved, and that is no suprise given that Afghanistan produces 90% of the global supply. That’s like going into some shops in Atlanta and then claiming there is a Coca-Cola addiction problem in that city.

]]> by: trick_shot_f-in_cheny http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47087 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:32:25 +0000 http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47087 Mlah: i heard rumors of ways to ‘attain’ drugs if i had wanted. Could you elaborate on that? What kinds of drugs, and what "ways"? Mlah: i heard rumors of ways to ‘attain’ drugs if i had wanted.
Could you elaborate on that? What kinds of drugs, and what “ways”?

]]> by: mlah http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47068 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:41:16 +0000 http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47068 no heroin problems i know of gus. remember i was stuck on base, where i liked it. i heard rumors of ways to 'attain' drugs if i had wanted. but i just don't do drugs. i knew nobody with any problems. never heard of anyone with drug problmes either. no heroin problems i know of gus. remember i was stuck on base, where i liked it. i heard rumors of ways to ‘attain’ drugs if i had wanted. but i just don’t do drugs.

i knew nobody with any problems. never heard of anyone with drug problmes either.

]]> by: Trick_Shot_F-in_Cheney http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47046 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:10:46 +0000 http://www.mlah.us/2007/08/06/women/#comment-47046 Yup: You have provided clarification of your argument and now Mlah, should he choose to do so, can respond. C'mon, Mlah! Be honest. Until you answer, I will consider your silence to mean "It's true, but I don't want to say it." And when you deny it, I will consider you a liar since you avoided answering it earlier and just want me to shut up. Yup: You have provided clarification of your argument and now Mlah, should he choose to do so, can respond.
C’mon, Mlah! Be honest. Until you answer, I will consider your silence to mean “It’s true, but I don’t want to say it.” And when you deny it, I will consider you a liar since you avoided answering it earlier and just want me to shut up.

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