Sarah Palin’s Advice on Syria: ‘Let Allah Sort it Out’

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8. My wiretapping teacher has more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin does

He almost started World War III.

Mike Wimer should have never been an instructor, and he's the guy who singlehandedly ensured no one under the rank of Staff Sergeant will ever stand on a podium again. (The reason for this is thread-locking, so let's just say it's a pretty good story and leave it at that.) This is also the asshole who decided, unilaterally, that bringing a drug dog through the barracks every single day was a bit on the excessive side...so he went downtown, bought a bottle of opium oil, and mixed it into a five-gallon can of liquid floor wax. Then he started passing around quarts of this concoction to his buddies in other units.

He was stationed in Panama in the 1970s, and was assigned to a platoon that did telephone monitoring. There were US bases on both sides of the canal, Mike was stationed on the north side and the base they were going to fuck with was located on the south side. So off they go to a barge to go down the canal. Naturally, he thought it was a good idea to take a case of beer with them. About halfway between the two bases, they passed a Soviet spy ship and decided to wave at it with upraised middle finger. The Soviets responded with upraised AKM rifles...lots of 'em.