Duffel Blog: PowerPoint slide credited with ending war in Afghanistan

| June 25, 2012

It’s satire because it’s The Duffle Blog. you know what satire is, right? Well this is satire;

“I just gotta say, this is a great day for the US Military, and our country as a whole,” said General Scapparotti.

Soldiers mobbed Dining Facilities (DFACs) across the war-torn nation in search of non-alcoholic beer to celebrate the historic event, while back on the home-front, millions of citizens took to the streets in thousands of impromptu ”victory parties.”

The cause for all of the celebration lies in the assessment slide at the center of the main briefing screen in the Kabul IJC — headquarters for the entire war effort. It shows a map of Afghanistan, with a block next to each Province, indicating the progress in that particular region. For the first time in the history of the now 11 year war, all blocks are colored green.

Yeah, cuz nothing says “victory” like near-beer. Did I mention that it’s satire? That’s why if you look out your window, no one is celebrating our victory in Afghanistan. Because it’s satire.

Category: Satire

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StrikeFO

Peace in our time!

BohicaTwentyTwo

Reminds me of Yossarian moving the bomb line. The more things change…

TopGoz

Is this satire? Because it sure seems like satire, but you can never be too careful assuming things are satire. Maybe it’s not really satire in the strict sense of satire, but merely satirical, meaning it’s part satire and part truth. But how much satire? Where is the dividing line between satire and satirical half-truths? Is it three quarters satire and one quarter truth, or vice versa? Or maybe half and half? I think I will have to fact-check this “satire” against the magazines at the grocery store checkout counter. Or Wikipedia. Both of those are good sources of non-satire.

Redacted1775

A Marine in K-Bay watches pearl harbor drunk, gets angry and tries to draw his gear, to include rifle with bayonet, in order to invade japan.<—–satire.

A Marine in K-Bay was arrested at the corner of 3rd and G butt ass naked, high on spice, bath salts and an "inhuman" amount of jagermeister trying to stab passersby in the face with his dick.<—–Probably closer to what actually happened.