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Mark Alexander: The Sum of All Lies - Terror does not tolerate a vacuum
2015-04-04
[Freedom Fighters Journal] The Sum of All Fears was one of many well-written novels by the late Tom Clancy, whose fictional military, intelligence and terrorism plots were woven with fact-based tradecraft.

The title was inspired by a quote from Winston Churchill: "You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together -- what do you get? The sum of their fears."

Clancy's plot focused on an Islamist terror group's endeavor to detonate a nuclear weapon in the U.S. A Syrian cell with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine reconstituted the nuke after discovering the necessary fissile material at an Israeli aircraft crash site.

True to Hollywood form, however, filmmakers grossly altered Clancy's original plot, resulting in a much less plausible but more politically correct version. In the movie, the terrorists are not Islamists, but "right-wing" neo-Nazis conspiring to detonate a nuclear bomb in Baltimore harbor -- and to start a war between the U.S. and Russia as a catalyst for cementing fascist alliances in the rest of Europe. Leave it to Tinseltown's Left-coast libs to cast these murderous villains as right-wing white supremacists rather than expose the real Islam!

Despite Hollywood's revisionism, Clancy's original plot was close to reality back in 1992, and it's much closer to the stark reality of today, given that Islamists may soon have fissile material from Iran to wage surrogate Jihad against the U.S.

The probability of al-Qa'ida and/or Islamic State actors gaining access to a nuclear weapon and then detonating it in the U.S. (most likely in an East Coast urban center) is increasing by the day.

That escalating threat is due solely to the "sum of all lies" being propagated by Barack Hussein Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, whose record of treasonous treachery dates back to his collaboration with our enemy during the Vietnam War.
Alexander's article is dated 1 April and is located toward the bottom of the page, #10 I believe. You may find those 'above the fold' quite interesting as well.
Posted by:Besoeker

#1  Personally, I've said for three years on this blog that the first Iranian nuke produced will have our name on it, not Israel.

As I have said, the Mullahs aren't stupid. They know that a nuke detonated on Tel Aviv would produce a fallout plume that would go across the ME and back into Iran.

I find it very troubling that the current administration has not released the full text of this agreement for publication...despite all of the cheerleading by the media. Just what on earth is the celebrating about? There is nothing in the rumor mill, even from central leak control in DOS, to indicate this is a good deal for anyone except Iran (thank you ValJar, I hope your well connected family back in Iran is happy).
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-04-04 11:32  

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