a military psychiatrist (non-Muslim) entered the room Parker, Stone and Williams were being kept in and grabbed a chair from along the wall and sat on it with the front of his body facing the back of the chair;
'Look, here's the deal,' said the shrink, 'we think you're crazy, but if you engage in homosexual activities then we cannot say you're crazy because we've advanced so much as a human race that we realize that gay people aren't mentally ill; however, if you don't engage in homosexual activities then all the evidence indicates you're mentally ill which means we would keep you here indefinitely for observation.'
'And you keep Bin Laden in the non-crazy section?' steamed Parker.
'He's not a suicide-risk and never was, he was more the scheming, instigating type - and so far as we know he hasn't engaged in any homosexual activity. So yeah, we lock him up in the normal section,' answered the shrink.
Stone looked at his Captain's bars on his green uniform and asked him,
'So if we start fucking eachother here then you're gonna release us?'
'I know it's odd, we call it Catch-22, but pretty much,' answered the Captain.
***
A few minutes later the three entertainers left the prison and walked around the Kandahar streets, certifiably sane. One of them burped and another blushed at the first's burp. Yet another wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
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