The Canadian one anyway. Why?
This story on CNN says that they have run into one interesting problem:
OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
The wily Taliban, despite their anti-drug stance which nearly brought the Afghani opium trade to a complete halt while they were in power still don't mind taking advantage of the situation:
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.
What to do? Bring out the WMDs, boys! We got some pot to burn!
"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said.
Of course, there is one issue with burning a forest of marijuana-
"A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those [forests] did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hiller said dryly.
Damn it, just when the army was starting to get fun. Oh well. I guess some people are just too uptight. For example-
One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."
So essentially, there's a huge forest of pot in Afghanistan that the Taliban are hiding in and there ain't nothing that can be done to get rid of it.
Folks, my irony meter just exploded.