This is a well made and acted movie whose contents can be summed in a few words: Americans helping the enemies of their enemies to fight against the latter. But since the principle that the enemies of our enemies are always our friends is totally wrong Americans are now fighting those former friends who even use the arms furnished to them by the Americans themselves. But that's quite another story and let's try to leave it aside though it's difficult because all is intertwined. Congressman Charlie Wilson sponsored and incited by an evangelic rich lady whose moral and religious principles don't prevent here of sharing her bed with this or that one (including Wilson himself), enters a crusade against Soviet invasion of Afghanistan maybe for idealism but the reality is quite different: the enemies of our enemies are our friends and we must help them not for idealism but because it helps our own cause. Our cause here is to fight Soviet domination anywhere in the world, mainly in such important areas like the Middle East in order that we be able to dominate it ourselves for our own good. No other interests move us and the proof is there: after the end of the war with the Soviet defeat we leave them to their sad lot and not even a cent for a school we'll give. And the consequences are there in Irak and against in Afghanistan now. Coming back to the movie it's a bit unbelievable that all the actions of Charlie Wilson would be of his exclusive responsibility without the surety bond of the Senate and the President. And that circumstance is not even mentioned in the movie. In conclusion we have here a well made movie but whose contents rouse many doubts.