[Veracious Poet]

***PING***

[inkling]

" But good men make mistakes."

So do hack authors.

[Indie]

I have no problem with conservatives disagreeing with the war in Iraq.
I do have a problem with leftist's fake altruism. They disagree [insincerely] with the war merely to gain power and advance their communist agenda..

Let us remember who the true enemies are.

[risk]

True patriots are measured in deeds, not words.

[A Jovial Cad]

What always amuses me is those who think Clancy has ever been "conservative" in any meaningful sense. With only one exception--*Red Storm Rising*--his novels have always been about how to appease America's enemies without admitting to it publicly within the context of the work. For instance, in "The Sum of All Fears" a radical Islamo-fascist dictator takes out an American city with a low-grade nuke that misfires in Colorado somewhere (if I'm remembering correctly), and *only* (think about that) kills or injures 20,000 Americans, more or less. Clancy's protagonist, Ryan, refuses, in the climax of the book, to authorize in conjunction with the sitting President of the United States a retaliatory strike on the capital city of the guilty party. The novel ends with a lot of improbable pinpoint strike spook stuff on the offending Mullah (clouded in reams of techno-jargon in the telling, which is Clancy's stock-in-trade), interspersed with thinly-veiled sermons about how awful it would be if we ever again stooped to fighting a *real* war again--i.e., a war to destroy large numbers of our sworn enemies. I've had little respect for anything Clancy has had to offer since I finished that novel, though I've continued to follow his work. But not with dollars: every book of his I've read since then has been checked out of the library. And returned on time, if not a good deal before.

[Republic]

I must ahve missed it--where is the part about Perle and Clancy's interaction?

[cgk]

Clancy and Zinni were on Hannity & Colmes last night. Colmes asked Clancy something, Clancy shot him down and sat back with his arms crossed. I can't remember what it was about, it was weird. Zinni spoke for the next 7-8 mins alone, arguing with both Sean and Alan. Finally Sean got Tom involved again, and got him to say he was "probably" going to vote for Bush this year.

[CWOJackson]

Zinni Update:

ISLAMABAD, Oct 7: Former US Centcom chief, General Anthony Zinni, is arriving here on Oct 24 in his capacity as a director of a multinational company which wants to invest in Pakistan's telecommunication industry. A Pakistani-American who is a partner in Gen Zinni's company, claims that the initial investment will be between $120 million to $150 million that might expand to $5 billion over a period of 10 years.

Zinni did not want to go after the murderers of the USS Cole sailors because he didn't want to harm relations with Muslim Pakistan...now we can see why...150 million reasons why. I wonder if he cut Clancy in on this sweet deal with his Muslim friends.

[agincourt1415]

Zinni is a liberal who was against taking any action to bomb terrorists camps in afganistan in the Clinton Era, please he's more of an idiot than Wesley Clark.

[InterceptPoint]

Hollywood butters Clancy's bread. He butters it back.

That is all that is going on here and nothing more. Clancy is just a screenwriter/novelist and does not have any greater insight into the War on Terror or the War in Iraq then your average Freeper. The fact that he has friends in high places and researches his books does not give him any special insight into the historical battle that we are engaged in. It could but it doesn't. His pocketbook speaks so loudly that it drowns out any message he should be getting from a simple review of history and current and recent (i.e. 9/11) events.