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To me, Tom Clancy was a visionary. He predicted 9/11 seven years before it happened. He did this by writing a fictional story (Debt of Honor) about a pilot that
by grizzles 9y ago
To me, Tom Clancy was a visionary. He predicted 9/11 seven years before it happened. He did this by writing a fictional story (Debt of Honor) about a pilot that uses his plane as a weapon to attack a joint session of Congress. This warned us about the risk of passenger jets being used as giant missiles. It's not his fault we didn't pay attention.
- valuearb 9y agoAn airline pilot doing it is much different than 9/11. 9/11 was easily preventable by locking cabin doors. A rogue pilot cant be effectively prevented. Though one wonders that if Bin Laden had “only” targeted the US Congress like in the book, whether he would have become an American hero instead.
- muddi900 9y agoUnited States did not have any decent standardized security protocols prior to 9/11.
- segmondy 9y agoOr perhaps he didn't predict it, but created it by writing about it. Life often imitates art.
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