Charlie Wilsons War

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Charlie Wilson War an Ethical Dilemma. Ethic is a way of balancing the right from the wrong. Society has deemed it necessary to put in place some key factors to help ensure ethical and moral behavior within society. Ethical behavior Is not always the way many people handle their business or govern their lives; One such individual is Charlie Wilson, In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seems to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people is suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow. Charlie Wilson’s War is a Movies based on factual information that shows how one man is able to start a war without any help from the president, by sleeping with powerful women, lying and cheating in order to make things happen. This movie makes one question. What price is an individual willing to settle for to go against ones own beliefs? Is Charlie’s behavior justified or is what he did considered wrong? This Question is debatable by where we stand morally. How this is even possible? The President is the one that makes these kinds of decisions? This is not the case with Charlie Wilsons War. Charlie is a man of questionable character both morally and ethically. Charlie is found in a hot tub with strippers in an a play boy center fold in what is considered unethical by

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