You can always find a few in any group of fine Christian young men:
Cellphone video recorded earlier this year at an operations center of a U.S. defense contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan appears to show key personnel staggeringly drunk or high on narcotics, in what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. military officials who are supposed to oversee such contractors [...]Melson and Smith worked as armed security officers for three and five months, respectively, in Kabul as part of a $47 million contract Jorge Scientific had under the U.S. Legacy Program to train the Afghan National Police in counter-insurgency efforts. Both men say they quit the company in disgust and out of concern that their own safety was being compromised by the behavior they describe.
"It was going against everything that we were trying to do over there," said Melson. The video shows the security manager for the company staggering about the operations center late one evening after taking large gulps of vodka and then engaging another employee in a half-naked wrestling match.
"It was like a frat house for adults," said Melson. "Some of them to the point where they were passing out, there's firearms laying around, some of them still carrying the firearms on them."
Another portion of the video shows the company's medical officer with glassy eyes and unable to respond to a request for help after shooting up with a prescription anesthetic, Ketamine.
Told of the existence of the video, the medical officer, Kevin Carlson, admitted to ABC News that he frequently injected himself with narcotics.
"It was getting to be such a nightmare, just living in that place, I needed to get away," said Carlson, who was among the employees dismissed by the company earlier this year.
Now living in Germany, Carlson said there was "massive drug and alcohol abuse" at that Jorge Scientific facility, involving executives, armed security personnel and himself.
"If I try to hide what I did, it doesn't make me look very good anyway," he said. "So I'd rather just be honest about what happened."
Good thing that both of our major-party presidential candidates are in essential agreement about the need to partner with our Afghan Friends in Freedom® in their gallant struggle for freedom and democracy. Otherwise you might conclude that the entire initiative is a hideous wasteful cock-up that should have been abandoned years ago---or never undertaken in the first place. But hey, enjoy the free Propofol, dudes.
---Baron V