If you want a good fairly recent story about Afghanistan
you will enjoy Charlie Wilson’s War.
Charlie Wilson is a hard drinking, trouble getting into Texas
congressman. On a trip to Pakistan
they fly Charlie up to an Afghan refugee camp.
The poverty, the misery, and the willingness to fight won Charlie’s
heart. Back in DC he hooks up with Gust
somebody or other, old gutsy CIA agent.
Charlie produces the money; Gust turns the money into weapons and gets
them to the Afghans. Cool shots of ultra
modern American surface to air missiles going into Afghanistan
on mule back. Despite being light enough
to man carry, they had enough punch to take down anything the Russians were
flying.
After victory,
Russians driven out, Charlie was unable to get all the Afghan factions to join
a single Afghan government. We decided
the Afghans were too childish to spend time or money on and let the place go to
pot. We gave to place away to Osama Bin
Ladin who used it to train up his troops to do 9-11. That did get our attention.
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