Charlie Wilson on Afghanistan | Segment from Eyewitness Issues and Answers (1983)
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- In this segment from 1983, Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas joins as a guest on the Houston show, Eyewitness Issues and Answers. The dialogue of the interview centers around Wilson’s trips into and opinions of Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion of the country in 1979. Wilson also describes the extent of the American assistance to Afghan freedom fighters, who successfully resisted the Soviet forces. The media clip documents and exemplifies the international political conflicts between the Soviet Union and United States in the Middle East during the Cold War an their global impact.
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Contributed to the Texas Film Commission’s Texas Moving Image Archive by the East Texas Research Center.
#ColdWar #1980s
Freedom fighters about to over run US embassy 😂
Terrorists have now beaten the remnants of the mujahadin (freedom fighters). Learn your history and stop memeing.
the northern alliance is picking up steam or so i heard?
@@carlosrivas1629 I wish it were true, I'd like to know ehre you heard that because I thought the talibs had pushed them out of the valley into the mountains.
Funny thing is that a democrat from 80s talks very much like republican today.... Just where the world shifted to?
Down the crapper
It’s sad.. I hate seeing what that party is trying to do to this amazing country. There are so many uneducated people in my generation that have these crazy ideas and are completely naive to how the real world works and are being brainwashed. It’s disturbing and frightening
@@mrwoody1413 yep, socialism is evil. I'm from Czech republic, we had communism here for 40 years. And 30 years after revolution we're still dealing with consequences.
Truth.. It's a 'party'.. Title, status or whatever
@@tomasteply1956 yeah that sucks. still do not get along with Slovak i guess? or it was always two countries pretending to be one?
lego hair was modeled from this dude.
Guy was a genuine hero who wanted to help Afghan fight occupation and rebuild the country.
Imagine believing that.
This guy wanted to ruin Afghanistan but we all know what eventually happened.
It took the Afghans years to push the Russians out.
With America all they had to do in the end was wait for them to leave and as a bonus prize collect 300’000 small arms, 1000s of military vehicles, some helicopters and even a couple of fighter jets that the Afghan army neglected to fly to Tajikistan.
Oh and the Nato forces even helped rehouse 100’000 non believers Afghani’s in their own countries and their tax payers pick up the bill, shortly before China moves in with nothing more than a handshake and a smile and begin rebuilding the Afghan economy in return for mineral rights.
Never mind,
10 years from now American tourists will be able to drive through the kajaki mountains on a 6 lane Chinese built highway with an Afghan dude tour guide in fake Armani sunglasses telling stories of how the courageous Taliban fooled two superpowers into wasting Trillions and welcomed a third one who sold them Samsung TVs and electric cars without firing a shot..
Sort of like Vietnam does today really.
You are right on the money!
Hm. I can see that.
Now it's sadly Ukraine's turn...with Poland being like Pakistan
You took the words outta my mouth
How about now?
Amazing story
Amazing outcome
@@reneegiese6315 a question was Asked to President Zia ul Haq of Pakistan of how in the world did the Afghans defeat the most powerful army in the world and he responded saying Charlie did it
@@Gehri_soch2.0 Did you mean this Charlie Wilson?
@@reneegiese6315 yep
This was how America trained Osama bin Laden.. 🤔
freedom fighter this aged well
Terrorists have now beaten the remnants of the mujahadin (freedom fighters). Learn your history and stop memeing.
It did. The taliban where not a thing until 1994.
Nobody can predict the future.
@@lucasrackley250 sorry arming those freedoms fighter was risky and they knew it. Remember Binladin was one
We NEED someone like Congressman Wilson today!
Helped create the Taliban lol
Charlie Wilson was a great person who did great things as a Congressman!
Pak Establishment loves characters like this
Now I don't feel any remorse for 9/11
I know there is a big change it but still Afghan nation doesn’t go with Russia. America need to take care of Afghanistan first. And I’ve gotta believe American diplomacy.
yea this a sad topic since the US did WAY worse in afgan , 20 years of lost money and no success.
True criminal
How is he a criminal?
@@Gehri_soch2.0 he a Russian guy of course he going to say that.
@@godzillaeatsushi4979 Indian. India support the Afghan Communists during the 1980s. So naturally they don’t like the Mujahadeen
Best Man
He was an amazing man. He helped us get the weapons to not just defeat Russia but destroy them.
That is far from the big picture look we invaded that same country! They hate us and this was the start of us almost bankrupting this country
nothing better in america then a texas democrat.
Hes definitely wouldn't be an today's dem thats for sure..
Charlie Wilson was the liberal/Democratic equivalent of Ronald Reagan. An American hero that more people should know about. (If he were active in politics today, he probably wouldn’t be a Democrat.)
He wouldn't be a friend of Putin, I can tell you that.
@@kichigan1 wouldn't be a fan of Ukraine either.
Nice try no
@@jamescurran6277 false equivalency
This guy should been president of United States. He is amazing
You on drugs?
@@guilles1933
If he/she is, it’s not the right drugs..
I read the book on C. Wilson, and he was very open in the way he lived his life.
Indeed; you could have done a lot worse
i highly doubt he'd ever wanted to be though. not the kind of lifestyle he enjoyed living. also as you can see you can get more stuff done as a senator or representative compared to being president. i don't know why anyone would ever want to be president. besides the prestige of the title everything else about it sucks.
2:54🙄🤔😳 Military secret
If the answer isn’t “no” then it is definitely a “yes”, no matter whether he hid it under “maybe”, “I don’t know”, “it’s a military secret” or “I can’t speak to that” or other such..
Remember the name
Zia Ul Haq 👑❤️
Yes..Paid killer of Palestinians on black September
Mard e Momin