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What a world we live in, where environmentalists are the scariest ghost around for the all-American red-blooded special forces hero to go chasing.
by sliverstorm 9y ago
What a world we live in, where environmentalists are the scariest ghost around for the all-American red-blooded special forces hero to go chasing.
- Lazare 9y ago> What a world we live in Well that's the thing: The book comes from a different world. More precisely, it came from 1998, when the Soviet Union (Tom Clancy's traditional antagonist of choice) was long gone, but Islamic terror wasn't yet the obvious replacement. He wrote a string of books with odd antagonists (eg, Japanese nationalists) during the period.
- Wohlf 9y agoThere were even some acts of environmental terrorism at the time, so it was probably an idea ripped from the headlines.
- pjc50 9y agoOf course, in reality we had French special forces committing acts of terrorism against environmentalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
- lightbyte 9y ago>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.
- eadmund 9y agoOn the other side of the aisle, Justice League opens with its evil terrorists being … suit-wearing English reactionaries.