Charles Wilson was a U.S Congressman, born in 1933 and died in 2010. In the Movie Charles Wilson is portrayed as a man with a lot of friends. He is a free spirit, and it don’t seems like he is that interested in what other thinks about him. He loves drinking and women. He also tried drugs, but this was discovered. I don’t know what consequences this had for him. He does not quite understand what is going on down in Iraq, until he visit a refugee camp down there and can see for him self. After this he is much more understanding and wants to do everything to help them.
I am not that into the details of this Cold War, but I think that I understood a little bit more after watching the movie. The movie is about Charles Wilson and it is based on a true story. We follow the war in Afghanistan which was fought between them and Russia. Russia had there helicopters and Afghanistan had nothing. They had just old weapons and no money to develop the military. Wilson wanted to send money and weapons down to them, but it could not come out that they had got the weapons from the United States.
I think the movie was good, but it was kind of hard to follow everything that happened. This war in Afghanistan was terrible and many people lost their lives. The Soviet wanted to support the Marxist government that the ex-prime minister in Afghanistan started. The problem is that the Superpowers go into a country and they help them and everything, but then they leave. Afghanistan had nothing to build the country up with. Wilson wanted to give them 1 million dollars to build a school, but no others wanted this. They said that they had helped and now they had to take care of them selves. When the Cold war ended, the world could let the air out and sit down. Everyone where afraid of a third world war, but it did not happen. Yet.
Yes it was a relief when the Berlin wall fell and by that the cold war came to an end. In the beginning you mention Iraq but this story was mainly about Afghanistan and the war with the Soviet Union. And how they killed children and women in the most awful ways imaginable. And how one man managed to raise the money to arm the resistance in Afghanistan but at the same time was not able to raise the money to build schools and hospitals.
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