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"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we f***ed up the end game."--Charlie Wilson

and the Zen master said "We'll see..."

Then the speech from Gus at the end… brilliant…

“The ball keeps on bouncing”

That was an awesome movie.

For a ‘scotch-drinking Texan who loves to chase women’ he sure was effective-AND prophetic

Great story, Great movie! 🔥🔥👍👍👍👍💪💪💪

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was absolutely fantastic in this film...as well as Tom Hanks but Phillip stole the show in my opinion.

Last two minutes of the video, yes, history repeated it again in 2021

He for sure was a man of great vision. The ball did always bounce and countries of power tried to use that force achieve their own goals, not realizing that it can bounce back as well

Interesting that the tech adviser said "people were scared of trusting the afgans. Prophetic for sure.

This is the best representation of how the Congress appropriates money for little wars everywhere.

And here we are

Talk about a prophetic statement. Morley Safer nailed it.

Beware the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, the wrath of the Afghans

Do not ever forget Amy fkin Adams....oh that ponytail.

It would be very interesting if Charlie could be interviewed today to see his point of view.

Funny how we “loved” the country so much and 10 years later, (and since) have called them nothing but terrorists

Roberts rocked the character. its the key and she did it well and diplomatic.

Give him credit, he was right 11:17

What a great movie!!

not really. The Afghans, mainly Pushtun, defeated Russia with Charlie's help. That helped to end the cold war for the U.S., very cheaply. It cost 2 billion, what a single B-2 bomber costs now. So it was a huge success, and remains a history changing strategy.

Wish they had made a movie about Gust while Hoffman was still alive, after reading the book I was more interested I'm more interested in Gust than Charlie Wilson

PSH absolutely stole, and made, the movie. Hanks could have stepped out and let Wilson play his own role. Hoffman made Gust a great character. The ladies were awesome as well...

we didn't stick around to reconstruct a stable country, we bail out before the job is done as always....

omg. his staff irl were really all bombshells

I know someone that was in "The Shop" that worked with him to make the USSR run away from Afghanistan. That is all I can say.

And taken over by the terrorist is exactly what happened. I grew up in Rep. Wilsons district. he was everything Tom Hanks portrayed in the movie. What is even more pointed is how he got into politics, According to Wilson himself, he first entered politics as a teenager by running a campaign against his next-door neighbor, city council incumbent Charles Hazard. When thirteen years old, Wilson's fourteen-year-old dog entered Hazard's yard. Hazard retaliated by mixing crushed glass into the dog's food, causing fatal internal bleeding. Following this incident, Wilson obtained a driver's permit and drove ninety-six voters to the polls in his family's two-door Chevrolet. As patrons left the car, Wilson told each of them that he didn't want to influence their vote, but that the incumbent Hazard had purposely killed his dog. After Hazard was defeated by a margin of 16 votes, Wilson went to his house to tell him that his black constituents voted to defeat him and he "shouldn't poison any more dogs." Wilson cited this as "the day [he] fell in love with America."

Charlie and Gus with information, were right about the future of Afghanistan. 😊

I love history movies; bios, ect. And even thought hollywood destroys history, I still enjoy a good history movie. Charly Wilson's War for what it's worth is ok.☺

‘Merica never saw an arms deal it didn’t like.

Wish we had politicians like this again

I’d vote for him.

The ball keeps bouncing

I was a youngun, when all this happened. But I do remember charlie on 20/20, or some other news reels, not understanding.. much like the zen master says.."we'll see".. i cast no blame... but speaking of cast.... the women in the film, and in real life he was around.. wooo weeee! ? I loved the movie. A land based hunt for red october..

If you mixed up DNA from Johnny Cash and David Letterman, you'd get a Charlie Wilson.

What I want to know is if the story about his dog and his neighbor when he was a kid is true or not.

Charlie you did it

Point of fact=in the Hindu Kush region over 1 trillion dollars of rare earth minerals are waiting to be mined.😢

Are you sure with Tom Hanks is only a remodel of an earlier version of Charlie Wilson’s war. I personally thought the original was much better.

If the strategists know enough to predict a given outcome, why then can't something be done to cause a more beneficial result? U.S. policy makers just make the same mistakes over and over.

I think it's weird how much he looks like 'Sully' Sullenberger...

And now we've been doing it to them since 2003.

Charlie Wilson is a National Treasure

Mr Wilson was a badass and honorable, but unfortunately naive and idealistic about Afghanistan. I spent five years there. There is no fixing that country to be what we want it to be

some1 who owned the boarding house that a rented a basement room from, basically an old land lord

I wonder what Charlie Wilson would think of Afghanistan today.

and unfortunately we didn't follow up. That ball kept on bouncin.

They don’t elect people like Charlie Wilson anymore

Charlie was last of its kind They don't make'em anymore.

Big assumption to say you can help them" build a country". How has that worked out since 2002?

Problem, reaction, solution

When Genghis Khan ruled the world there was one area he never conquered, and that was Afghanistan. They are really tough. i only wish our politicians studies history.

This was the SOVIET UNIONS, VIETNAM had we allowed them to break these people at the Time, it would of been our loss and their gain , this war was their DEMISE, when we walked out on them it turned into what it is today, WE dropped the ball as we did in VIETNAM, trial and error, but RUSSIA failed as well, no one wins when people suffer.

History repeating itself with Kurds right now

We helped create the Taliban which led to, well you know….

"I love sticking it to the russians."

Wilson!!!...oops wrong movie.

And the Afghans lived happily ever after...

Tom Hankopoulos

If only they listened.

A thought-provoking expose on Afghanistan. Who are they, where are they, and why should we care? Beyond the cultural / romantic considerations is the pragmatic / strategic question of air-sovereignty over the Straight of Hormuz.

Where is Gust. Is he still alive.

different world

We need more patriots like this today

Imagine Charlie Wilson in office now, dealing with an escalating "feud" with North Korea, and impending trade tariffs with the rest of the world. What would Charlie do? Could he succeed?

Is Afghanistan better off now than it was in the 1980s? Arguably not. Does that invalidate Charlie Wilson’s efforts? Arguably not. There are many historical examples of countries that experience a series of social, religious, political, or military calamities which more than anything else stem from an instability of governance.

If Charlie Wilson was alive today, I wonder what he would have thought of the debacle of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 ?

And he was right.

"We fucked up the end game"---C.W

And it all backfired to America on 9/11 didn't it?

Gardes

Yhe Afganistan it blew back on 9/11/2001

I can’t believe Charlie couldn’t scrape together $1lousyM for the Afghan schools after raising $2B a year earlier.

The worst part of the whole mess in Afghanistan was that we failed them after they forced the USSR out. We should have helped them create a stable government. The GOP just decided to ignore the country.

This is what a real American looks like

Charlie is the Lawrence of Arabia of Afganistan.

If they would have done what Charlie Wilson wanted, guess what? Osama Bin Laden may not have gotten Real Pissed at the US A-holes in charge and just did Nothing but live in his country with a bunch of Schools with some Help for the Old and Young. That would have went a very long way for Desert People. Mesa, AZ ARMY 1970-73

Real life John Wayne.

What a waste for the US to go in there and do the same stupid thing the Soviets did

9/11 puts that heroic story into perspective

What i don't understand is that the Americans could have read the Afghan history and realised that no one since Alexander the great has conquered these people. They are a law unto themselves ! Therefore taking them on as enemies was the worst choice they have made. However, once again their Foreign Policy and understanding of other peoples history and Culture sucks !

Mr. Wilson is rolling over in his grave.

He was so American, naive, well meaning and a disaster.

The right kind of good o' boy Texan. Respectful to country, women, family. Last of a dying breed.

and then 911.....

Charlie Wilson, a great American

clone the man

That’s a tried and true method of getting support. Show the suffering children and use peoples compassion to manipulate them. The US mined Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, and ironically, and more recently Afghanistan the same as the Russians. That’s just a few, there’s many more. If you haven’t figured it out yet we’re not the good guys anymore, if we ever really were.

PSH should’ve won, or at least been nominated, an award.. if those ‘awards’ weren’t *literally bought & paid for Not my opinion, but Mr. Denzel Washington, after, he ‘won’ his Oscar. Hint:by & large, ‘winners’ are chosen by the quality of gifts voters receive

Why the debt is in the trillions?

I wish there was a lot more senators like Charlie Wilson give us our guns in our churches and leave us the hell alone

Towards the end of the video, it says, "It could be taken over again, by terrorists." Which is what happened. The Taliban Terrorists brought down hell on earth and the US flattened Afghanistan! So, who did the right thing really? Was it proper to provide shiploads of AK 47 & other munitions to the undeveloped Afghans in the first place?

Modern day roman coliseum lions and christians circus,,,,

Charlie Wilson is one of the true architects of 9/11. Change my mind.

does he have a grandson?

I don’t understand American politics. How comes a local politician gets to run a secret intelligence/military operation on the other side of the world? Shouldn’t that require national level decision makers? What does this have to do with Texas?

Gust was right.

Underwater 0:35 seconds

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the mujahidin are a different faction than the taliban. They are largely the same. American money weaponized islam in Afghanistan. And that same weapon would later be pointed at the West. No reconstruction would have or will ever change that.