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As I watch the Super Bowl, I am wondering about Tom Clancy and how some of his scenarios have come true. The similarities are amazing:
In the end of Clancy's book Debt of Honor , an a Japanese pilot intentionally slams his 747 into the Capitol building as Jack Ryan is being sworn in as Vice President. 900 people, including the President, are killed. In the next book, Executie Orders , a deadly strain of the Ebola virus is released on the US by an Arab terrorist. Very similar to recent events.
Now, what I'm wondering is, can the plots of some of his other books come true also? In the Sum of All Fears , Isralei terrorists explode a nuclear device at the Super Bowl in Denver. In Rainbow Six , terrorists plan to rid all life on the world by spreading a virus at the Sydney Olympics (outdated now, of course).
It's scary that Clancy's world and ours are now riding on simlar planes, and you just have to think what's to come.
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Well, it isn't like he's just pulling idea out of his ass and they somehow manage to all happen exactly the way he wrote them. His stories are based on stuff that's actually feasible. And considering that he's written a whole lot of books, and the only correlation any of them has to a real event is the general idea of a terrorist crashing an airliner into an American building (not even the right building, or the right nationality of terrorist), I don't see how anything even remotely resembling a pattern could be seen.
And an Arab terrorist releasing Ebola is pretty different than some random unidentified person/people mailing out anthrax in the wake of an attack by Arab terrorists.
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Unless the team is the "Carnivores" and Jack in riding shotgun with the blimp pilot.
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