By Bal(t)imoron, 3 months and 21 days ago
Hanks' Charlie Wilson Whopper
I finally watched Charlie Wilson's War. Aside from a brilliant Aaron Sorkin script, and numerous other female distractions—notably Emily Blunt—the serious historical error about arming Ahmad Shah Massoud (YouTube embedding disabled by request) is terminal.
I've corroborated this claim in both Peter Bergen's Holy War, Inc. and Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.
Why Tom Hanks allowed this whopper is almost as troubling as the Pakistani connection to Hekmatyar.
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