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Once again Clancy gives us a great action packed adventure that also gives us little nuggets of pure conservative jabs all the way through. Unfortunatly Hollywood always drops them out of the Clancy movies. In Rainbow Six the bad guys are eco-terrorists who want to kill off all of the human race with exception to the couple thousand true believers who will live in harmony with nature. One of my more favorite story lines included that of former KGB agent Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov. He is unkowingly working for the environmental group in a scheme so convoluded that you would have to read the book. Some of the more amusing moments come when miscommunication leads leads to the group believing that he is a "true believer" too! One example of this is when the group asks him about his experience with the outdoors. He begins to talk about his camping trips with the Soviet equivalent to the Boy Scouts. As he speaks he stops to think to himself of an experience for the first time with a female on one of those trips. As he reflects on that the environmentalists believes he is thinking back fondly of nature.
One bit of discussion in the book that I found particularly relevant to today is that of how to deal with terrorists. In one line a Ding Chaves thinks "It doesn't hurt to learn what goes on inside a terrorist's head or what they think, but the only thing you really need to know is how to kill them" (as best as I can remember how that went). So often I hear from pundents on the left that "we need to understand the root cause of the terrorism" particularly as when referring to the Palestinian homicide bombers. These pundents tipicallly are sympethetic to the terrorist cause and aim not to stop the terrorists but to further their cause.
For me to continue to speak of this book would only ruin many of the surprises, so I will stop and say simply, just to read the book. |
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