you can teach-em to type, but you can't teach-em to grow ...shttp://megashare.info/watch-charlie-wilsons-war-online-TmpJME5RPT0
you can teach-em to type, but you can't teach-em to grow ...sWell, credit where credit's due on one score: shocking that leftists would think fighting communism was something to celebrate or take credit for in the first place.
I really enjoyed this film :-)
Congressman Charlie Wilson
"Wilson recalled that he first became interested in politics when his dog died in 1946. A neighbor, who happened to be a local elected official, was upset that Wilson's dog had apparently soiled his garden and had put finely-grained glass into the dog's food to kill it. Wilson, in an act of revenge, doused his neighbor's yard in gasoline and set it on fire. Wilson then borrowed his family's car, drove voters to the polls, and told them that while he didn't want to tell them how to vote, they should know that this particular local official had killed his dog. The man who killed Wilson's dog lost the election. Wilson confronted the man and suggested that he shouldn't be harming anyone else's dogs."
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.
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.
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.
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.