Charlie Wilson's War

This was good. I thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman was good. Tom Hanks was good. The story was good. I have read in some places that it opened the door for criticism of current policy and identified some blame for the Taliban, but it did it obliquely enough that it could be missed by someone who wasn't interested in seeing it. I think that is probably fair. However, I think it notable that this story about the "heroic" defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan by the Afghan rbels armed by the US turns out to be the beginning of the Taliban regime and all of its fallout. I appreciated Hoffman's role in identifying the potential dangers caused by this action. And, I think it was not totally obvious. The story was good. It was fun at times. I liked it a lot.