I read the book - quite enjoyed it.
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.
Another perspective of the war was “Afghanistan: The Bear Trap,” written by the former Pakistan ISI director of Afghanistan operations Mohammad Yousaf (with Mark Adkin). Charlie did much to be proud of, but though the great percentage of arms shipments were provided by the USA (and dropped off to the ISI in Karachi), the grunt work was still done by Afghanis. And, by the way, Wilson never did visit Afghanistan.