Re:What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
by dajohnson89 on Sunday November 26, 2017 @11:35PM
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and it was a damn good first person shooter.
Re:What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
by sliverstorm on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:48AM
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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.
> 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.
There were even some acts of environmental terrorism at the time, so it was probably an idea ripped from the headlines.
Of course, in reality we had French special forces committing acts of terrorism against environmentalists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic
Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.
On the other side of the aisle, Justice League opens with its evil terrorists being … suit-wearing English reactionaries.
This is the plot of Rainbow Six, where a scheming group of evil environmentalists plan to unleash a weaponized strain of Ebola on the world to wipe out 99.99% of the global population so that the ecosystems will survive. Other comically evil things the environmentalists do include experimenting on homeless people abducted from the street and provoking/funding acts of terror worldwide as part of some hazy cover up for their activities.
It all ends in tears for the environmentalists though, at the hands of an all-American red-blooded special forces hero and his multi-national above-the-law and above-Top-Secret counter-terrorism task force.
Not really Clancy's finest hour, IMO, but a good look into the conservative id.