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Tom Clancy new book criticises Iraq war
The Sydney Morning Herald ^
| 5/26/04
Posted on 05/25/2004 12:38:07 PM PDT by Rams82
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To: Rams82
Egads...Lou Holtz and Tom Clancy going to the Dark Side.
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posted on
05/25/2004 4:53:22 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
To: LS
His new wife, who is black, maybe has some Muslim family members.
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posted on
05/25/2004 4:54:54 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience. DCN)
To: Rams82
Well, I guess I know where my firewood starter is coming from next winter...I have a library of the stuff.
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posted on
05/25/2004 5:06:09 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: Cicero
What ethnicity is Zinni? Eye-Talian?
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posted on
05/25/2004 7:27:00 PM PDT
by
Destro
(Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
To: Destro
I believe Zinni is Jewish but I'm not sure.
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posted on
05/26/2004 2:21:39 PM PDT
by
Rams82
To: jim35
This is every bit as smart as a country music group criticizing GW. Who does this bozo think his audience is, Not stupid, but brave. And an act of integrity.
To: Fletcher J; LS
I just recently picked up Clancy's "Red Rabbit". The story premise is good and entertaining, but the writing is hardly the best I have seen.
First of all, its written about events 20 years ago. There seem to be anachronisms, items and events which are out of order in the timeline. Clancy readers are pretty smart so I know that they catch things like that.
I know its hard to recall events 2 decades ago, but Clacny also writes as if every single person knew that the Soviet Union would crumble by 1991. It was simply not the case.
I also have a problem with the character of Jack Ryan. I nearly threw the book down when Clancy wrote that Ryan was so "smart" that he invested in a litte coffee company named Starbucks back in the early 80's. Thats cheap writing.
Its clear that although Clancy understood the Cold War, but I don't think he gets terrorism as well.
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posted on
08/01/2004 10:49:15 AM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: KC_Conspirator
Many think Clancy does not write his own stuff any more, and given the quality (or lack thereof) of Red Rabbit, I agree.
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posted on
08/01/2004 12:37:48 PM PDT
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
To: Rams82
Well I expected more from Tom Clancy. Here is a guy who I felt could see the big picture but I guess I was wrong.
General Zinni might be a okay guy but he is also just another arm chair general doing a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking at a late date.
I have not doubt that a lot of the same questions were being raised during the occupation of Germany after W.W.II. We know that even two years after the war ended there was still a lot problems and attacks on Allied troops. So the problems we are having in Iraq are no surprise to students of history.
Saddam had to be taken out if for no other reason than to show the rest of the world we mean business about Terrorism and Tyrants that help sponsor it.
Now why is it Clancy can't see that?????????
To: Rams82
DISAPPOINTED!
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posted on
08/01/2004 12:50:15 PM PDT
by
montag813
("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
To: LS
It reminds of Stephen Ambrose's last book where apparently his staff put together alot of it and it contained alot of sloppy errors.
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posted on
08/01/2004 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
KC_Conspirator
(This space outsourced to India)
To: Rams82
Tom Clancy's book wars are always, always ridiculously clean and neat. When it becomes clear that the Iraq war isn't a fairytale with a quick happy ending after a few months, of course Clancy will turn on it.
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posted on
08/01/2004 8:36:13 PM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: TexasGreg
"There he was, sitting on international TV, wearing a beige colored 1970s era Leisure Suit. YUCK!!!"
Actually this could be seen as flattering. The ways which fairly sudden wealth change people say much about their character.
To: KC_Conspirator
"I also have a problem with the character of Jack Ryan. I nearly threw the book down when Clancy wrote that Ryan was so "smart" that he invested in a litte coffee company named Starbucks back in the early 80's. Thats cheap writing."
Clancy indulges in wishful thinking autobiography to a degree that harms his work. 'the bear and the dragon' was full of monologues on his political views, and at that point I quit reading him. I agree, it IS cheap writing and he clearly has the sales figures to forgo normal editorial controls and put this stuff out there.
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