This has apparently been making the rounds for months. It was new to me and perhaps it will be new to you. Oh yes, It's damn funny.

||| french intellectuals deployed in afghanistan |||
Michael Kelly
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Associated Press : For Immediate Release: March, 2002
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French Intellectuals to be Deployed in Afghanistan to Convince Taliban of Non-Existence of God.
Kabul---The clean-up portion of the ground war in Afghanistan heated up yesterday when the Allies revealed plans to airdrop a platoon of crack French existentialist philosophers into the country to destroy the morale of the remaining Taliban zealots by proving the non-existence of God.
Elements from the feared Jean-Paul Sartre Brigade, or 'Black Berets', will be parachuted into the combat zones to spread doubt, despondency and existential anomie among the enemy. Hardened by numerous intellectual battles fought during their long occupation of Paris's Left Bank, their first action will be to establish a number of sidewalk cafes at strategic points near the front lines.
There they will drink coffee and talk animatedly about the absurd nature of life and man's lonely isolation inthe universe. They will be accompanied by a number of heartbreakingly beautiful girlfriends who will propagate fear, uncertainty and doubt by looking remote and unattainable.
Their leader, Colonel Marc-Ange Belmondo, spoke yesterday of his confidence in the success of their mission. Sorbonne graduate Belmondo, a very intense and unshaven young man in a black pullover, gesticulated wildly and said, "The Taliban are caught in a logical fallacy of the most ridiculous proportions. There is no God and I can prove it."
Marc-Ange plans to deliver an impassioned thesis on man's inescapapable lack of freedom of action, with special reference to the work of Foucault and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
However, humanitarian agencies have been quick to condemn the operation as inhumane, pointing out that the effects of passive smoke from the Frenchmens' endless Gauloises and Gitanes could wreak a terrible toll on civilians in the area.
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This piece seems to have been emailed all over, and is on a few websites without credit. Tracked down to Michael Kelly's Page of Misery. Check it out.
Recently received an email from Amy Larson saying that the piece is originally from SatireWire, which until recently was kept updated by Andrew Marlatt. He's called it a day unfortunately, but the site archives are still worth looking at.
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