heartbroken_mr_drax wrote:
Not really in that much agreement about the Mujahideen element of TLD making the story seem dated. Based on that logic everything pre Goldeneye is purely a "relic of the Cold War"?
If 'real history' is brought to bear, the group represented by Kamran Shah might, in time, have become the Taliban: this hypothetical switch from freedom fighters (Bond's allies) to enemies would be a more pointed change than any other ideological realignments implied, for Bond, by historical developments.