If George Crile "had written more of the truth", any more of the truth, book wouldn't sell many copies and we wouldn't see the movie adapted from it because Hollywood (in this case Tom Hanks, Aaron Sorkin, George Soros et al,) as Aaron Sorkin said in his other script, "can't handle the truth", and wouldn't be interested in making, producing and financing the truth and nothing but the truth.
In his fictional story, "based on a true story", Grile used just enough of the truth to make a "hero" out of a personally flawed southern Democrat (oh, what parallels one can draw!), while at the same time subtly implying that Reagan and his administration were somehow responsible for bad guys (Gulbuddin, Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden et al) organizing and being financed and supplied by us in Afghanistan, which later (around 1995) led to takeover by Taliban and still later (around 1998) let to Osama's relocation of al-Qaeda HQ and training camps in Afghanistan...
The inconvenient truth is that because Charlie Wilson was deeply personally flawed and in constant danger of losing his office and, therefore, his meal ticket to power, women, junkets and possibly even his own freedom were constantly in jeopardy, he could easily be blackmailed and used and was used by CIA, Pakis and Afghans nd whoever else - for deeds, some good and some evil, by people, some good and some evil.
That's the real inconvenient truth about Charlie Wilson, but it wouldn't be easy to find in Charlie Wilson's War as told to us (even when modified under pressure) by George Grile, Aaron Sorkin, Tom Hanks and George Soros, because it wasn't his "war" - Charlie Wilson happened to be the right guy ("personally flawed") in the right place (Congress, where funding authority lies for covert operations) at the right time (Afghanistan's mujahideen resistance against Soviet invasion) who was taken along for the ride because he was useful in getting funding for it.
In Hollywood, when the story doesn't fit or doesn't sell, they do a rewrite... After almost two decades, that it's no longer possible to keep silent, deny or diminish the fact that Soviet Union's defeat in Afghanistan was a huge step in the dissolution of Evil Empire, so the need for a new story line and a "real hero" somehow suddenly emerged from fertile imagination of Hollywood liberals. What we are witnessing here is another one of Hollywood's rewrites of history. If the choice is between telling the truth or telling the story, when the story sounds better than the truth, Hollywood (and many "journalists") will tell the story.
Sorry, Charlie... You couldn't win "Charlie Wilson's War" as there was no such thing, except in the hearts and minds of Hollywood.
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