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Old 02-19-2008, 02:19 PM  
vending_machine
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
I'm afraid you are, otherwise they would not be blowing you up.

You spent half a billion dollars arming the Afghan freedom fighters. Then you thought it was all over and you let the crazies take over. For the cost of a few schools, hospitals, tractors you could of had a friend. Instead you let the Taliban and Bin Laden take over and now spend billions when a few million would of saved the day.
Sadly, this is a point that I fear many will miss in the movie Charlie Wilson's War, and that I thought was given too little attention at the end of the movie. I thought it was a great movie besides the ending..
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