{"id":661722,"date":"2010-02-11T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-616522656077582530"},"modified":"2010-02-11T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:40:31","slug":"charlie-wilson-and-ollie-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661722","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Wilson and Ollie North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S3QfEnI2mcI\/AAAAAAAAFFM\/qKra6h1ELRY\/s1600-h\/Charlie%2BWilson%2Bat%2BWHCA.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S3QfEnI2mcI\/AAAAAAAAFFM\/qKra6h1ELRY\/s320\/Charlie%2BWilson%2Bat%2BWHCA.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437004814229084610\" \/><\/a>Charlie Wilson, a 12 term Congressman (D) from Texas and former United States naval officer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/obituaries\/84090537.html\">passed away yesterday<\/a> at 76.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the movie &#8216;Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War&#8217; when my local Blockbuster was going out of business, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to watching it yet&#8230; Though I know the general gist of what Representative Wilson was known for. <\/p>\n<p>From Wiki:<br \/>&#8220;&#8230;He was best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever CIA covert operation, which supplied military equipment, including anti-aircraft weapons such as Stinger antiaircraft missiles, and paramilitary officers from their Special Activities Division to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War and a subsequent film adaptation&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Wilson_(Texas_politician)\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood liked him enough to make a film and some libs on FB were lamenting his passing yesterday, but for the life of me I can&#8217;t figure out what he did differently than Ollie North with the Contras. Funding a resistance group with government funds and Wilson is heralded and North demonized? Am I missing some major component of the story?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-616522656077582530?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Wilson, a 12 term Congressman (D) from Texas and former United States naval officer, passed away yesterday at 76. I bought the movie &#8216;Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War&#8217; when my local Blockbuster was going out of business, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to watching it yet&#8230; Though I know the general gist of what Representative Wilson was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M8W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}