First, a little bit about Michael Johns:
Michael Johns is a health care executive, former U.S. federal government official and a prominent conservative policy analyst and writer. In his industry capacities, Michael has held executive management responsibilities in several components of the U.S. and global health care industry. In addition to his extensive private sector career, Michael has served as a White House speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush…
Michael let me know about his review because I am a big time player in the conservative circles and he know this will get out to where it needs to go. Actually, that’s not true.
But he did let me know that he had written it, and I am interested in this period of time in America’s history. I found one of the most extensive movie reviews I have ever read:
As the film correctly depicts, Wilson experienced surprising success in his somewhat rogue effort to substantially increase covert CIA-channeled U.S. aid to the mujahideen, and the results were ultimately nothing short of remarkable, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan turning into Moscow’s Vietnam. The mujahideen proved hugely heroic fighters. With the aid of U.S.-supplied Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, Soviet MIG and other fighter jets were routinely shot from the sky. Charlie Wilson’s War tells this story and, in so doing, provides a fairly new and important context on what was undeniably one of the single greatest contributing factors to the ultimate collapse of global communism. Afghanistan, quite simply, proved for the first time that, with determination and support, the Soviet Union’s conquests were reversible. The global significance of this message surely ranks among the most important of the 20th century.
If you are at all interested in foreign policy during the Reagan administration, you should read this review. Very insightful and very well written. I look forward to seeing this movie.
