If you’ve never seen Charlie Wilson’s War, I highly recommend it.
It’s an extremely funny movie about a very dark, amazing and crazy era in which the good old US of A armed the Afghans in their war to fight off a Soviet invasion – and then inadvertently screwed it up and helped give birth to the Taliban. Okay, you can’t win them all and I’m not here rehash the conflict.
But this much is true – it’s a great movie with Tom Hanks as Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson and Philip Seymour Hoffman as CIA-spook-extraordinaire both going the distance and throwing 102 for 9 full innings…