Anyone old renough to fully understand the political significance of this movie?
Im the Alpha and the Omoxus. The Omoxus and the Omega
I guess the Star Wars angle has merit but that was near the tail end of the movie. And Reagan wasn't doing anything illegal - well maybe with the UN but not with USA. I'm thinking the movie had more CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007) significance. Google Operation Cyclone. The recently late Congressman Wilson (D-TX) was working for the CIA (and secretly Israeli Mossad mostly) to help the Afghan muhjadeen (OBL's and al-Queda beginnings) get weapons to defeat the Russians. Some of that stuff is being used against our soldiers by the Taliban today.
Check out my amateur treatment for the new remake: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090056/board/thread/159854799
homeboy chris 3-4, reagan was heavily involved with pushing the CIA to fund the mujahideen: the afghani resistance to the soviet invasion. He pumped funds into the resistance, selling them stinger missiles, and collaborating with the pakistani ISI to fight the commies. Unfortunately, these were the same people who eventually supported the taliban.
The US started a sadly unsuccessful stinger buy back system years later that was too little too late.
No one cares about Charlie Wilson, never did then, never did now, not even Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, America's Liberal Deceptor's, could turn people's memory of Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet's, Communism, and Socialism, not to mention tearing down the Berlin Wall.
Now let's beat up that OLD Bastard George Carlin, he'd appreciate it!
Wherever the rabidly right-wing interjector of political diatribe goes, grammatical incomprehensibility is sure to follow.
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