Our Government: What the Fuck Do They Do All Day and Why Does it Cost So Goddamned Much Money? pp. 154-184 Summary and Analysis

In a new section entitled "Very Foreign Policy" O'Rourke contends that American diplomacy has seldom been effective. He considers the war in Afghanistan a rare success for U.S. foreign policy. However, since O'Rourke characterizes most of the Mujahedeen as deceitful, violent and self-serving, there exists an air of doubt as to whether or not the U.S. should have aided the group's fight against the Soviets.

Visiting Afghanistan to cover the expected fall of Kabul, O'Rourke shirks his journalistic duty in favor of shopping and drinking. Wandering a crowded, third-world bazaar, where everything from cigars to weapons might be purchased...