Hollywood Revisionism: Charlie Wilson's War

AlterNet has an excellent review of Charlie Wilson's War which points out many of the big lies it promotes about the U.S. actions in Afghanistan in the '80s. Among the many sins of omission is any mention of the way the C.I.A. helped create the Taliban and the fighters which became al Qaeda. Thus, this movie fails to show how blowback from the CIA's actions in Afghanistan led to the attacks on 9/11. Without that link we fail to learn the lessons from American foreign policy disasters.