Charlie Wilson’s War
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Crile’s book is the right tale of how a Texas Congressman and a rogue CIA agent conspired to launch the largest, meanest, and most successful CIA battle ever— the operation to fund the mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet army that had invaded Afghanistan. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to secret chambers at Langley, from arms dealers’ conventions to the Khyber Pass, Charlie Wilson’s War presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.
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The book is in nearly perfect condition.
It took me several flip throughs before I realized
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Charlie Wilson’s War for a book. Eventually I came to the logical yet speculative assumption that the printer must’ve loaded up the incorrect covers for this book when assembling the thing. All but the outer take in is indeed the book I ordered. I’ve never seen the book before i ordered it. Unless of course this is a CIA ‘coverup’ so no one really knows you’re reading Charlie Wilson’s War…..Mike
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The leader was cool when the robot blew up the airplane i thought aCrile was gonna die. But he didnt i was relieved:] Most of the characters were kinda cool smitty … he made punch holes in the walls. But when wally ongoing his conversation about US nuclear strike capabillites he made me giggle with delight. I recommend it to anyone lacking a gamecube or a name who is doing their homework and doesnt wanna do it USA USA USA USA!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic tale, but Crile is not a fantastic writer, or even a excellent one. This is more of a hagiography than a serious critique of a man who played quick and loose with the rules and in the process helped arm radical Islamists–and we’ve already seen the consequences of that.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Crile, a producer for the US news programme `60 Minutes’, has written a hymn of praise for the CIA and its terrorist operation in Afghanistan. He also idolises Congressman Charlie Wilson, a excellent ol’ Texan, a coke-snorting, whisky-guzzling, whoring, arms-dealing, freeloading, hit-and-run drunk-driver, who constantly broke US laws to arrange aid for the terrorist cause.
Crile ignores the fact that the US intervened first in Afghanistan, supporting reactionary terrorists trying to overthrow the progressive government: on 3 July 1979, President Carter signed a secret directive authorising covert aid to the mujehadin. The CIA promoted drug trafficking to raise funds for them. The British, French and Israeli governments all sold arms to them. Only in December 1979, five months after the US intervention, did Soviet troops enter Afghanistan, at the Afghan government’s request, to defend the people against the terrorist attack.
The CIA, helped by Thatcher, spent $1 billion a year arming and training more than 300,000 Islamic mercenaries drawn from around the world to fight against Afghani national liberation. Crile tells us that MI6 did much of the CIA’s dirty work, `murder, assassination, and indiscriminate bombings’. It was the CIA’s largest operation, far larger than their terrorist Contra operation in Nicaragua, indeed the largest secret war ever.
The CIA-organised Contras targeted schools, clinics and hospitals: so did the mujehadin, and more so. The Contras “raped, tortured and killed exposed civilians, including children” and “groups of civilians, including women and children, were burned, dismembered, blinded and beheaded”, as the CIA told a Congressional Intelligence Committee. So did the mujehadin, and more so. The CIA’s special favourite was the resistant criminal and fascist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was “reliable for the practice of throwing acid in the faces of Afghan women who failed to take in themselves properly”.
In the end, Gorbachev withdrew the Soviet forces from Afghanistan, and the mujehadin proceeded to wreck Afghanistan and attack their sponsor the USA. Crile claims that the withdrawal ruined the Soviet Union. Not so; as Castro said, “Imperialism could not have ruined the Soviet Union if the Soviets had not ruined it first.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Charlie a hero? Let see. CIA helps Taliban gain military power… Taliban expels Russia… Taliban host Binladen… 9/11… US invades Taliban…
Who is the hero?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5