A couple of years ago, a movie came and went starring Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the military call letters for WTF. I didn’t even remember the movie until I went looking for reviews for The Taliban Shuffle after I’d read it. I sometimes like to read reviews after I’ve finished a book, just to see if my thinking is in line with the critics’. One thing I discovered while doing so this time, apart from the fact that the book was made in […]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
“At some point, I realized the horrible truth–the United States and its allies could win every single battle in Afghanistan and blow up every single alleged top militant in Pakistan, but still lose this war.” Like most of America I adore Tina Fey; but like most of America I skipped her recent film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot because it looked a little campy for my tastes. However, I sought out the memoir, Taliban Shuffle, because it seemed like a chief complaint of the movie was that […]