“Wanna know why we lost in Afghanistan? We didn’t bang enough hookers. If we banged any. I don’t think they even have hookers there. When you invade a country, you gotta keep the troops motivated.”
“What about Vietnam? I saw Full Metal Jacket; we banged plenty of their hookers, yet we still lost.”
“Not really. According to Noam Chomsky—”
“Who’s he? A pimp?”
“No, a political writer. He said we actually won in Vietnam, ’cause we made it an example. Fuck around and find out. That philosophy kept us in charge around the world, long as we had hookers. But now—I doubt Afghanistan’ll ever get a Starbucks or even a Taco Bell.”
Copyright © 2021 by David V. Matthews
September 12-13. 2021
