To Save Ukraine, Speaker Johnson must find his inner Charlie Wilson

The movie "Charlie Wilson's War," based on the nonfiction book by George Crile, features Tom Hanks as Charlie Wilson, the well-connected, hard-drinking, womanizing Democratic congressman from Texas who found the key to defeating the Soviet Union after its invasion and occupation of Afghanistan during the Cold War. As dramatically depicted In the movie, Wilson visits a huge, squalid Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan and realizes that the Afghan mujahideen are fighting America's fight against the Soviet Union. With the aid of a wealthy, beautiful Texas woman (Julia Roberts) Charlie appropriates funds to arm the mujahideen with sophisticated weapons, which they…