Tired Road Warrior

Two nights ago I watched the movie Everybody’s Fine, starring Robert De Niro as father and several other fine actors as his offspring.  In the movie Frank Goode, a widower played by De Niro, travels around the country visiting his adult children.  Learning their secrets leads first to introspection, then to a determination to make things right.  The important point for me was Goode’s desire to patch things up with his “less-than-perfect” kids.  To do this he needed to reconsider his past expectations for them.

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Former Texas congressman Charlie Wilson, the principal supporter of US involvement with anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan, died on Wednesday of this week (10 Feb 2010).  He was very much the endearing rascal that American voters seem to adore.  His exploits in southcentral Asia were recently chronicled in the underappreciated movie “Charlie Wilson’s War.”

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