

Charlie Wilson War Movie

Charlie Wilson War Movie

Helicopters shooting innocent kids and adults, what a disaster! It was the 1980’s; Charlie Wilson was a Texas congressman. The movie starts out him in a stage then sitting in a hot tub, with bunch of naked woman, having drinks. There was a television showing Afghanis being invaded by Russians, telling him to rise up the volume, so he can hear it better. Throughout the movie, Charlie Wilson is a congressman who always has a glass of scotch whiskey in his hand, representing the district of Texas that gets involved in the war that was ongoing on in the Middle East.

Watching this film, I see a congressman who gets heavily involved with politics. Charlie Wilson was a very bold person in the movie. One day Charlie gets urged by a Houston socialite Joanne Herring to visit Pakistan to meet President Zia. In the beginning of the meeting, Charlie is not really aware of what’s going on until President Zia tells Charlie to go visit the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan to see what kind of disaster those people are seeing every day. It definitely opens my eyes and it opened Charlie’s eyes. A truck comes to bring food and people were fighting over it. You can see many afghans were dying from soviet Helicopters.

This movie is an example of heroes who are willing to help out even people out of their country. You would think that Charlie is a congressman out of a little part of Texas, who talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk and can’t really do much, but you realize how quickly things change when you know powerful people. First of all, you got to give credit to Joanne for motivating Charlie in the first place, because without her, it would have been a different story. Also, when he sees the hurt and hungry Afghans in the refugee camps, it sparks up a flame in him for his existing hatred towards the Russians.

There was another person that came into the picture of Charlie’s life by motivating him by the name of Gust, who was a CIA member trying to partner up with Charlie. Gust was a CIA specialist trying to help Charlie with the strategic side of it all. From 5 million dollars to a billion invested on lot artillery in the war to get the soviets out of Afghanistan, but in the end of the movie, Charlie wanted to put money into schools and was unsuccessful. Sure, building school and maybe roads are great, but I don’t know if the benefits outweigh the costs for the U. S government.

If they did have enough money to invest, it would be great to give a better education system, because education in the long term would provide knowledge to the kids and adults, so they can survive and won’t have to strive. Food is definitely another great way to help kids and adults as you saw in the movie, they almost killed one another for a bag of rice if I saw it right. I can’t say I been to Afghanistan but from the movie and what I seen on television, Afghanistan definitely needs roads since it looks so deserted. From schools, roads to food, it would cost the U. S another 20- 30 million dollars for decent quality. Overall, what the U.

S did was great enough to help lives. Other countries in the Middle East might want support too, but who wouldn’t. You can’t babysit everyone. You would think that Charlie Wilson looked like one lazy Congressman out of Texas who just drank and chased woman, but he actually changed the movie plot around. For big plans such as in the movie, it’s always great to have great minds combine, not only for motivation but for experience and knowledge from each person, everything plays hand in hand. Politicians have great power and the only way to do be a great politician is use it. At the end of the day, it’s all about money and how you use it.

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