How badly did the movie pervert Clancy's book? A movie that was faithful to the book could not be made in Liberal/Democrat Hollywood
Let's list some of the politically incorrect items from the book:
- Israeli jets in 1973 war flying around with nukes (can't make people nervous about Israel's nukes)
- Israel loses one of the nukes over Arab territory, never tells US about it so we could help find it
- Arab terrorist group obtains nuke, hoping to start WW-III between US and Russia, which would leave the Muslims as the most powerful group left standing
- Democrat prez having affair with his female National Security Advisor
- Female NSC is a catty, underhanded b*tch who gets her nose out of joint because Jack Ryan is insufficiently deferential to her, and decides to try to destroy Jack, and his marriage, thru sneaky games (can't have unpositive female role models)
- After the bomb goes off, Clinton-like prez and female NSC completely lose their heads from terror that someone was trying to take THEM out, and decide to order a nuke strike on Russia
- Ryan has to effectively stage an internal coup to stop WW3 (BTW, in the book Ryan is head of CIA, rather than just an analyst, which makes his being able to get on the hotline with the Russians MUCH more believable)
- Prez finds gets (false) info from captured terrorists that the attack was ordered by Islamic leader in Iran, and decides to retaliate by ordering a nuke strike on Iranian city. Ryan has to convince the SAC general that the Prez has lost his mind, in order to stop launch. Turns out it was a final attempt by terrorist leader to provoke a war between US and all of Islam
Bottom line: a movie which would portray a Dem Prez and a female senior govt official as unstable lunatics CANNOT be made in Hollywood