Movie - Charlie Wilson's War (repost)

This is a pretty good movie. Philip Seymour Hoffman is excellent as the apple importer. Watch this to remember how we got the Israelis, Egyptians and Saudis to arm the Afghanistan Mujahadin with Russian-made weapons to shoot down those amazing Hind helicopters. I didn't know this story. If it's true then one man can stop a war, but he can’t always finish the game. We've spent a great deal of money giving weapons to other countries. It's amazing how often that has gotten turned around so the weapons get pointed back at us. Perhaps there is a lesson there? It's a bit like growing corn to make ethanol to replace gasoline. Sounds good at first but once you get into it you find that the side effects are as bad or worse than the original problem.