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REVIEW ☆ Charlie Wilson's War George Crile ✓ 1 REVIEW Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times Washington Post and Los Angeles Times bestseller In the early 1980s a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan freedom fighters who continued despite overwhelming odds to fight the Soviet invaders Wilson who sat on the all powerful House Appropriations Committ. Charlie Wilson s War is a chilling tale of how a few determined people can undermine all existing law use their positions of power and influence to get unseen funds allocated and pursue a major war without the approval of the American people Crile was clearly enad of Wilson regarding him as a charismatic larger than life figure who performed a major service to the West by tipping the Soviet Union over the edge Crile foreground with Wilson suspenders and an unnamed ISI agent shades in Afghanistan from Wiki media There is some consciousness here of some of the blowback that resulted from this work the resources now used by Islamic extremists to attack the West but I doubt that Wilson or any of his cohorts will ever accept any real responsibility for that A must read for anyone interested in how foreign policy can be driven by committed individuals The film that was based on the book is definitely worth a look EXTRA STUFFCrile a long time producer and reporter for CBS news a two time winner of the Edward R Murrow Award for his outstanding foreign policy reporting passed away at age 61 in 2006 There are many links to reports Crile made on this wiki pageCharlie Wilson passed away in 2010 Wikipedia has a bit information on him The Mark of Athena law use their positions of power and influence to get unseen funds allocated and pursue a major war without the approval of the American people Crile was clearly enad of Wilson regarding him as a charismatic 2002 Index of Economic Freedom larger than Grenadier Volume 7 Grenadier life figure who performed a major service to the West by tipping the Soviet Union over the edge Crile foreground with Wilson suspenders and an unnamed ISI agent shades in Afghanistan from Wiki media There is some consciousness here of some of the blowback that resulted from this work the resources now used by Islamic extremists to attack the West but I doubt that Wilson or any of his cohorts will ever accept any real responsibility for that A must read for anyone interested in how foreign policy can be driven by committed individuals The film that was based on the book is definitely worth a Alice in Wonderland look EXTRA STUFFCrile a The Great Game The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia long time producer and reporter for CBS news a two time winner of the Edward R Murrow Award for his outstanding foreign policy reporting passed away at age 61 in 2006 There are many Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice links to reports Crile made on this wiki pageCharlie Wilson passed away in 2010 Wikipedia has a bit information on him

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REVIEW ☆ Charlie Wilson's War George Crile ✓ 1 REVIEW Ee managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen The arms were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an out of favor CIA operative Gust Avrokotos whose working class Greek American background made him an anomaly among the Ivy League world of American spies Avrakotos handpicked a staff of CIA outcasts to run his operation and with their help continually st. Charlie Wilson s war is indispensible for anyone who wants to understand the roots of our current war in Afghanistan It s also a primer on how Washington worked in the 1970s 1980s under Reagan Tip O Neill and others Congressman Charlie Wilson and the CIA funneled billions of dollars worth of money and euipment to the Mooj or Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviet 40th Army Every penny every bullet went via Pakistan s ISI as a condition of Pakistan allowing it all Wilson his delusions of Churchillian Great Man grandeur fueled by cocaine alcohol pretty women and the perks of a seat on powerful Congressional committees was able to take the campaign from one to bleed the Soviets to one that led to the biggest military humiliation in Soviet history a defining event in the collapse of that empireThe bad news It was all so officially secret that the Mooj thought it was all due to Allah instead of America and once the Soviets were gone they ve turned their weapons on America in the years since Some American foreign policy critics after the events of September 11th talked about how we had created a monster that escaped our control and bit us back This is what they were talking aboutThe movie version of this book is far too glib to get across such amazing characters as Wilson and his CIA partner Gust Avrokotos or the dozen or so other characters from Presidents and Ministers to fringe characters that ended up playing huge roles Read Charlie Wilson s War to understand the uagmire we find ourselves in today The Karma she is a bitch Happy Christmas Hammy the Wonder Hamster led to the biggest military humiliation in Soviet history a defining event in the collapse of that empireThe bad news It was all so officially secret that the Mooj thought it was all due to Allah instead of America and once the Soviets were gone they ve turned their weapons on America in the years since Some American foreign policy critics after the events of September 11th talked about how we had created a monster that escaped our control and bit us back This is what they were talking aboutThe movie version of this book is far too glib to get across such amazing characters as Wilson and his CIA partner Gust Avrokotos or the dozen or so other characters from Presidents and Ministers to fringe characters that ended up playing huge roles Read Charlie Wilson s War to understand the uagmire we find ourselves in today The Karma she is a bitch

REVIEW ☆ Charlie Wilson's War George Crile ✓ 1 REVIEW Retched the Agency's rules to the breaking point Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to secret chambers at Langley to arms dealers' conventions to the Khyber Pass this book presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand new foe in the form of radical Isla. An incredibly entertaining history of Amercia s most successful covert war via proxy When the Soviets went into Afghanistan Congressman Charlie Wilson pushed to support the mujaheddinIt s true that this eventually turned against us providing the training that militarized those who would eventually become terrorists but those dots wouldn t be connected until many years later At the time many thought it plausible that Afghanistan would be solidly a US partisan The US State Department is tragically often blinded to reality typically because real subject experts aren t considered trustworthy by the True Patriots or other ideologues among their appointed and elected taskmasters so prior lessons of The Great Game weren t examined or consideredTom Hanks starred as Charlie Wilson in the movie of the same name which also featured the wonderful and recently deceased c 2014 Philip Seymour Hoffman as the maverick CIA agentCharlie Wilson died on 10 February 2010 prompting a small torrent of obits Obituaries worth reading The Economist Charles Nesbitt Wilson congressman party animal and saviour of Afghanistan The UK Guardian Charlie Wilson Flamboyant Texan congressman who masterminded covert US support for the mujahideen during the Soviet Afghan war New York Times Charlie Wilson Texas Congressman Linked to Foreign Intrigue Dies at 76 BBC News Obituary US Congressman Charlie Wilson The Floating Bridge Nettles led to the emergence of a brand new foe in the form of radical Isla. An incredibly entertaining history of Amercia s most successful covert war via proxy When the Soviets went into Afghanistan Congressman Charlie Wilson pushed to support the mujaheddinIt s true that this eventually turned against us providing the training that militarized those who would eventually become terrorists but those dots wouldn t be connected until many years Revolutionary path later At the time many thought it plausible that Afghanistan would be solidly a US partisan The US State Department is tragically often blinded to reality typically because real subject experts aren t considered trustworthy by the True Patriots or other ideologues among their appointed and elected taskmasters so prior The Boyfriend Next Door lessons of The Great Game weren t examined or consideredTom Hanks starred as Charlie Wilson in the movie of the same name which also featured the wonderful and recently deceased c 2014 Philip Seymour Hoffman as the maverick CIA agentCharlie Wilson died on 10 February 2010 prompting a small torrent of obits Obituaries worth reading The Economist Charles Nesbitt Wilson congressman party animal and saviour of Afghanistan The UK Guardian Charlie Wilson Flamboyant Texan congressman who masterminded covert US support for the mujahideen during the Soviet Afghan war New York Times Charlie Wilson Texas Congressman Linked to Foreign Intrigue Dies at 76 BBC News Obituary US Congressman Charlie Wilson