The Mujaheddin in Afghanistan split into splinter groups, but I guess they kept excellent attendance records which they then mailed to Hollywood screenwriters, elected Democrats and some liberal professors.
In Charlie Wilson’s War the filmmakers neglect in their “based on a true story” story to tell you that the Taliban didn’t take power until 1996. They leave out half of the Mujaheddin like Ahmad Massoud, who was assassinated for fighting the Taliban. He also warned us in April of 2001 that the Taliban was planning an attack. He was assassinated by Al-Qaeda on September 9, 2001.
Ismail Khan is another such Taliban resister. The Taliban’s enemies are legion. Some of them are crazy Islamists as well, but I would rather they kill each other and we fight who is left, as opposed to fighting all of them together just so people feel better about non-intervention.
I guess the moral of the story here is to stay out of Darfur, right? After all, we can’t expect this Democrat congress to want to impose our Imperial ways on those poor Janjaweed. Training and arming the Sudanese non-muslims would also be bad. Better to have mass rape and murder than to actually let someone fight back.
I think that’s the point here. If you actually allow people to fight back, you have to make comedic farce movies mocking the ones who do the heavy lifting when a Democrat Congress sits on its hands. Then you don’t get to make those money making movies like Schindlers list, Hotel Rawanda and the future features on Darfur. No “history light” movies for those atrocities. We didn’t stop them in time.
Its good to see that Democrats are consistent with their winning non-interventionist message. We know some of them will be invited to cry at the premieres of the next wave of atrocity movies.
