Dallas Strip Clubs: Hirst: Charlie Wilson’s charge
Wilson’s efforts were catalogued in George Crile’s 2003 book and adapted for film by Aaron Sorkin. Many probably have no idea what Charlie Wilson looked like — his name instead evokes the Tom Hanks portrayal. For those who haven’t seen “Charlie Wilson’s War” allow me to briefly summarize: He was a womanizing, cocaine-snorting Texan who single-handedly kept alive the American single malt whiskey industry. He spent a fair share his time hanging out with strippers and gamblers, was nicknamed “good time Charlie” and was once fined $90,000 for election-expenditure irregularities. In the movie, then-Afghan President Zia-ul-Haq tells Wilson that his reputation precedes him; Wilson tells an aide, “You know you’ve hit rock bottom when you’re told you have ‘character flaws’ by a man who hanged his predecessor in a military coup.” None of these indiscretions abated while he found funding for the mujahideen, and he never seemed to regret it.