From Foreign Policy Blog:
It's commonly known that vast quantities of vice leave Afghanistan's borders each year, but German forces are fighting back. Media reports show that German military bases in the country received shipments of more than a million liters of alcoholic beverages last year. That included 990,000 liters of beer and 69,000 liters of wine. If all of this were consumed only by the 3,600 German troops stationed in Afghanistan, that would come out to 275 liters of beer per soldier
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My Comment: U.S. grunts with their Canadian, Dutch, and British allies are slogging it out tonight in South Afghanistan, suffering casualties and hard-ships .... and the Germans are up north drinking beer.
What is wrong with this picture.