Mini Movie Review (sort of)

The girlfriend and I went to the movies today.

My intention was to see "There Will Be Blood". I have heard nothing but good things about it and about Daniel Day-Lewis' performance. It is a likely Oscar sweeper.



But to my amazement and consternation, it isn't playing ANYWHERE in the Kansas City area!!!

So we talked about the alternatives and decided on "Charlie Wilson's War".





It was a very entertaining movie. We enjoyed it very much. I highly recommend it.

The only problem I have with it is the glorification of a renegade congressman taking it upon himself to appropriate five hundred million dollars a year of tax payer money funneled through Pakistan to buy Soviet made weapons from an Isreali arms dealer to fund Afghanistan rebels without any sort of real, elected, constitutional, congressional oversight.

The end result of which was a disgruntled and pissed off core group of the mujahaddin which became al-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden and resulted in 9-11. Which in turn resulted in our current involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Perhaps, if proper channels were followed, there may have been some professional critical thought, experience and analysis brought to bear on the situation.

It is possible that someone may have forseen that arming and training the muhajaddin for our short term goals without any sort of well thought out, long term strategy in place might just be ill-advised.

We have checks and balances for a reason.

Charlie Wilson created Osama Bin Laden who created George W. Bush.

But other than that, it was a good movie.