Posted on 02/01/2014 9:12:44 PM PST by mylife
Loved this movie. There was extensive commentary here when the movie was new in the theaters.
There are actually two movies about Charlie. One is the movie with Tom Hanks and the other is a two hour television documentary. Maybe History Channel?
There was a time in America when Democrats didn’t always march in lockstep with the Socialists. Charlie was quite a guy.
I miss that America.
Good movie. I’ve got that one on DVD. There’s definitely some Hollywood spin in that movie, but the characters really make the story.
I think Gust is brilliant.
How many men are there like him in this world?
DVD? What is that?
I watched it on A G-box using XBMC V12.
I can’t keep up with all that newfangled tech. They come up with stuff that’s supposed to be “the next big thing” and then it suddenly fades into obscurity after a while.
The film, though entertaining, is not history, unless one allows shameless Democrat revisionist history as true history.
The film and the story upon which it is based is almost completely made up, an attempt to re-write the American response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, after the ousting of Jimmy Carter, as successful because of the efforts of the fun-loving efforts of a handful of Democrat House insiders.
Charlie Wilson was a fun guy, but his cooperation with Republicans after Reagan and Graham swept his district was almost completely pragmatic. He was became a hawk, in reality, only to save his political bacon.
Since he's dead, now, Liberals are safe to celebrate him as one of their own.
XBMC is free to download on any device and The G-box device( (a standalone computer) is like $88.
I love mine.
Thank you for your honest input.
Study England in Afganistan. Study history before that, i.e. the Romans and everyone else who tried to tame those yahoos.
Enjoyed it very much!! Yes, Gust was the best!
my thoughts on Charlie Wilosn today are
he was a “soldier of fortune” wannabee, who, like the U.S, foreign policy “Hawks” who backed him, had really honorable intentions in what they thought, to themselves, was really honorable enterprise.
It was an enterprise in which he, and his supporters were totally, naively ignorant of their “allies” in the matter, who were actually using Charlie Wilson and the U.S. foreign policy apparatus in supporting their own double game - doing what seemed to be what we wanted but was 100% the opposite, using us to get done what they wanted - which was NOT in our long term interest.
We simply helped replace a secular Marxist dictatorship with a Muslim, radical fundamentalist Islamic dictatorship, and provided a great boost to international Islamic terrorism in the process, and to our eventual great loss.
Yes, I know, I am Monday morning quarterbacking, but in this case, in hindsight, there is more insight, knowledge and honesty and no naivete in doing so, which is more than can be said of our foreign policy hawks and Charlie Wilson when they allied themselves with the Islamists run by Pakistan, to create an Islamist Afghanistan, paid for by Saudi Arabia in their own international promotion of radical Islamist fundamentalism.
Charlie Wilson was a good guy, and together with our foreign policy hawks he was duped into supporting an enterprise that was not in our long term interest, because of the real agenda our “allies” in the enterprise were actually promoting, for themselves.
frankly scarlet I don’t give a dam
I know.
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