Charlie Wilson RIP

colintrav
colintrav Posts: 1,074
edited February 2010 in The Crudcatcher
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... obit_N.htm

You might have seen the film based on him .. here is a interview ... that he did speaking about the affair ..

Quality stuff ...

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  • missmarple
    missmarple Posts: 1,980
    Colin Traveller, I thought you'd died. What a shame.
  • Sarnian
    Sarnian Posts: 1,451
    FFS :shock:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    isnt he the bloke who armed afghanistan with modern useful weapons?
  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,741
    yep

    as the film points out, the yanks gave the afghanis sh1tloads of weapons to take a pop at the russians but couldn't be arsed to rebuild the country that the war had ruined

    and guess who was one of the prime recipients? Osama Bin Laden, come on down!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    hmmm, so a country gives weapons to a foreign nation to assist in the defeat of one of its enemies, seems sensible.

    then leaves the country in ruin.

    shame they didnt have a crystal ball all those years ago.
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    they did, they knew exactly what they were doing, analysts and planners are paid to know this. Cold war in it's latter stages being played out and knowing full well what Wahhabism was and where it was going. It's called lining the next one up. War without end / geo-political chess game.
  • Goomba Fletch
    Goomba Fletch Posts: 221
    In fact, the more fanatical the Mujahideen were, the more support they were given, because it was believed that they would fight harder against the Soviets. Therefore after the conflict, it was the extremists who were better placed to fill the power vacuum.

    Part short-sightedness, part stupidity.
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  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,286
    only part stupidity?
  • Goomba Fletch
    Goomba Fletch Posts: 221
    blister pus wrote:
    they did, they knew exactly what they were doing, analysts and planners are paid to know this. Cold war in it's latter stages being played out and knowing full well what Wahhabism was and where it was going. It's called lining the next one up. War without end / geo-political chess game.

    You haven't read Gore Vidal have you? 'Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace', he shows that America has been in a state of war constantly since the Berlin Airlift of 1948 until the present day. Hell, the Korean War is technically still going!
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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,610
    I saw the overview never got round to reading it though, but I've read most of his other stuff over the years. Same goes for Chomsky.
  • robertpb
    robertpb Posts: 1,866
    Sign in an Iranian travel agents, Visit America before America Visits You.
    Now where's that "Get Out of Crash Free Card"
  • Goomba Fletch
    Goomba Fletch Posts: 221
    blister pus wrote:
    I saw the overview never got round to reading it though, but I've read most of his other stuff over the years. Same goes for Chomsky.

    You're better read than I am then :P it's the only book of his I've read so far, but I have to say I'm thoroughly impressed with it. It contains the series of letters between himself and Timothy McVeigh, which is very interesting. Thought provoking stuff :)
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  • colintrav
    colintrav Posts: 1,074
    Goomba Fletch wrote:
    In fact, the more fanatical the Mujahideen were, the more support they were given, because it was believed that they would fight harder against the Soviets. Therefore after the conflict, it was the extremists who were better placed to fill the power vacuum.

    Part short-sightedness, part stupidity.



    One of the leaders of the Mujahideen Units was assinated by Bin Laden fro being Pro western when months before he warned the West about him , Typically they never listend ,.,

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