Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy
Adams and Ned Beatty.
Based on George Crile's book about the
CIA's largest and most successful covert CIA operation, the arming
of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The covert ops were engineered by
Charlie Wilson (Hanks), a charismatic, wheeler-dealer, liberal
Texas congressman who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman).
The two manipulated Congress, the CIA and a host of foreign
governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight
against the Soviets in the 1980s. Many of the men armed by the CIA
went on to become the Taliban's enforcers and Osama bin Laden's
protectors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xNVhGIQl0
