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Based on the true
story of how Charlie Wilson, an alcoholic womanizer and Texas
congressman, persuaded the CIA to train and arm resistance fighters
in Afghanistan to fend off the Soviet Union. With the help of rogue
CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, the two men supplied money, training and
a team of military experts that turned the ill-equipped Afghan
freedom-fighters into a force that brought the Red Army to a
stalemate and set the stage for conflicts in the Middle East that
still rage to this day. |