I don’t mean to upset you. This is very serious.
Of course it’s okay to drink alcohol. But when you’re drunk, you’re vulnerable. Socially, politically, spiritually.
My only point about the KGB is that they used alcohol against their political targets. Not that they’re using it against you when you go to the grocery store.
But it’s a very safe bet to think that our enemies will be happier and their interests better served—at our expense—the more Americans are drinking and getting drunk.
Yuri Bezmenov on his KGB duties.
“Part of my job was to keep foreigners permanently on a certain level of intoxication, not too drunk, not too sober. Why? Simple. So that everything looks nice to them in Russia. The moment that they walk out of the airplane in Moscow, we take them to the VIP lounge and we toast with champagne to friendship, understanding, detente, brotherhood, Andropov-style. And if they refuse to drink, we tell them, ‘It’s unethical. You may offend [the] feelings of our people, because it’s a tradition in our country to get drunk for friendship.’”
http://uselessdissident.blogspot.com/2009/04/black-is-beautiful-part-two.html