Tom Clancy Made Us Idiots About Terrorism

Re:Tom Clancy Made Us Idiots About Terrorism by grizzles on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:29PM (#15718270)

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.

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Re:Tom Clancy Made Us Idiots About Terrorism by valuearb on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:57PM (#15718384)

An 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.

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Re:Tom Clancy Made Us Idiots About Terrorism by muddi900 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:22PM (#15718457)

United States did not have any decent standardized security protocols prior to 9/11.

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Re:Tom Clancy Made Us Idiots About Terrorism by segmondy on Thursday November 16, 2017 @09:02PM (#15718399)

Or perhaps he didn't predict it, but created it by writing about it. Life often imitates art.

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