Here is an infamy.

"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people -- whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra"

...aging village patriarchs were easily sold on the utility of a pill that could "put them back in an authoritative position"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/25/AR2008122500931_pf.html

Contrast this with the condition of women in Afghanistan as described by RAWA (www.rawa.org, requires javascript)

Kidnapping and Raping of a 15-Year Old Afghan Girl in Farah

Kandahar Schools Empty After Acid Attack on Girls

Two Women and a Small Girl Chopped into Pieces in Northern Afghanistan

Warlords gang-rape a woman in Badakhshan

Police rapes a girl in Takhar, Women are sold in Faryab

...

The Afghan people have seen much. They are intimately acquainted with politics, power, war, drugs and death. The warlord recipient of CIA generosity understands the bargain better than his handlers. Exactly who is bribing whom here ? The warlord will now enmesh Western might in destroying those who oppose his personal rule. And his wives will suffer his "authoritative position"

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