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Kamran Shah was educated at Oxford, and would be a comforting presence at any Manhattan cocktail party.

They help Bond attack the heavily-armed Soviet base, ending in victory.Īs so often in American films, even in the wildest corners of the world the good guys are led by someone much like us. After refusing to fight, they are shamed by the bravery of the beautiful young Russian, Kara Milovy, and follow Bond. He finds unlikely allies, such as a band of bold horse-riding Afghanistan mujahideen - led by the Kamran Shah. James Bond travels the world fighting evil in The Living Daylights. Mujahideen riding to the rescue in “The Living Daylights”Īvailable at Amazon. Here we see what we were told about that war, and the mujahideen “freedom fighters”, despite the ample information available showing this to be false. Today we look at three films from 1987-1988, the end of the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghanistan War - in which we played so large a part, with horrific results for Afghanistan and America. As with so many aspects of America, it’s clearly seen on the big screen. There’s a pattern here that we refuse to see, a costly error. Today’s post looks at something more subtle but just as deceitful: the narratives spun in the news by government officials, their associates, their useful idiots, and journalists. We treat the information highway like a Fisher-Price toy.Ī previous post reviewed the many outright lies told us by high government officials about enemies of America - and how we fail to learn, but believe the new lie. We suffer from our lack of curiosity, our minds closed to alternative sources of information.

With childlike wonder each day I see with astonishment our willingness to believe what we’re told. Accusing eyes of the women in the lands we’ve liberated. Summary: Films from 1987-1888 about the Afghanistan mujahideen reveal much about our inability to clearly see the world and learn from it.