Uncle Sam's image of punishing evil and upholding justice was once again erected through the incident of a congressman. Many Americans and Westerners still equate communism with terrorism to this day, which involves national policy issues and cannot afford to dwell on them. Just to describe the war that lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s in such a qualitative way, it is puzzling, what kind of movie is this, whether it is a celebration of personal heroism or a promotion of American political culture.
In December 1979, the Soviet Union's armed intervention in Afghanistan, and then the United States joined to provide arms assistance to Afghanistan, so this turned into an arms war between the world's two superpowers. It was just a battlefield, but in another third world country.
The film tries to express such a theme story: the Afghans whose military strength was backward were slaughtered by the Soviet army. retreat.
There is such a scene in the film: first, it is a close-up of a woman's high heels in the office corridor, and then the picture gradually fades into the Afghanistan battlefield. Congressman Charlie's status has gained unprecedented importance. He has successfully increased the US government's large military investment, and at the same time, he has used his strong social connections, ranging from the president of other countries, to the rich Texas woman, to the belly dancer, in all aspects. To ensure that the United States did not directly intervene in the Cold War and confront the Soviet Army head-on, so that the "Cold War" continued to have this delicate name.
It's a bit ironic distortion. The director upholds a humanitarian attitude. Even a playboy-like character will be moved by the existence value of living beings. He can use so many unique methods to carry out his "war". (Not to mention the many times he shed tears of being moved by himself), Americans' high sense of self-recognition turned into an ignorant distortion, self-deception, and deception.
In fact, anyone with a little knowledge of the Cold War would agree that the Soviet threat to the United States during the Cold War was greatly exaggerated by the United States. The political actions and political positions of a country in world affairs are actually decided by some people. The starting point of interests is naturally the United States itself. All this is not worthy of praise, nor should it be so personal. It is better to use the existing Third World battlefields to effectively weaken the Soviet military power because it provides military expenditures to curb the further expansion of the Soviet military power indefinitely and irregularly.
There are also many strategic analysts in the US political system, such as the RAND Corporation, the Department of Defense, and the CIA, who have an important influence on national policy affairs. Rather than Charlie getting the government to accept his ideas, the military advice these experts provided to leaders after analyzing the strategic gains and losses was adopted and implemented. The choice after this risk gain and loss analysis should be relatively successful for the United States, and they have spent a lot of effort to accomplish what seems to be a good result. The role of the Cold War in Afghanistan has two aspects: first, as the United States wanted to contain the military influence of the Soviet Union; second, it is also full of irony, the civil war in Afghanistan did not end because of the withdrawal of the Soviet Union and the support of the United States. The supported bin Laden mines on the ground, becoming a new threatening armed force and endangering the entire world.
Everyone can have their own political stance, there is nothing wrong with that, but stance is subjective, history is objective. For others, and the media for us, we should only state history, so that people have space to think, and then make their own evaluations. Rather than adding a literary film with a subjective political attitude to shamelessly sing the spirit of the United States of America and hypnotize yourself and others.
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