Yes, I read the book too. It was a good read.
I notice the write-up failed to mention Charlie Wilson was a Democrat from Texas. Perhaps Hollyweird doesn’t want people to know that. I won’t watch the movie because I refuse to watch Julia Roberts in anything, she’s the world’s largest airhead.
Our mistake was walking away after the Soviets were driven out.
Radical Islam filled the void.
This is why we can’t leave Iraq.
You make some excellent points.
Seems like it must have been 100 years ago that someone with a D after their name would be motivated by patriotism - but then again this was pre-clintonism. I feel that clintonism is has changed a lot in our body politic.
I remember being impressed by this book in the simple fact that although there are 435 members of congress it is only the inner circle of committee chairmen and in some cases sub-committee chairman that hold the real power. The rest are just scenery.
“Our mistake was walking away after the Soviets were driven out.”
We were never there, how could we walk away?
Most the muj didn’t even know we were assisting. All assistance came from pakistan bases set up in the mountains. Unofficial Support came from The United States, China, The UK, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. But everything came through Pakistan. They even would redraw satellite photos into hand written maps done by afghans so they and the soviets wouldn’t know where they came from.