Charlie Wilson worked with the CIA to fund a guerrilla resistance to the Soviets in Afghanistan and won. There wasn’t much of a plan for what to do with these trained and armed fighters afterward. He would say, “These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world. And the people who deserved the credit are the ones who made the sacrifice. And then we fucked up the endgame.” Those same fighters became the Taliban and sheltered Osama bin Laden.
