I hope this makes you laugh as much as it did me.
This is truly a Gravity's Rainbow moment. Through Reuters and ABC News Online, the story emerges that Canadian NATO fighters hunting the Taliban are encountering serious problems from none other than marijuana forests.
More below the fold.
Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.
Groan. "Potent." It looks like dirt weed to me; fit only for making rope!
I won't spoil the two punch lines at the end of the short piece; I'll just say that it's probably the only laugh those poor devils over there have had.