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Title: Where was Congress during all of this?
Review: So the tenth out of ten missiles hits the ICBM that's about to plug D.C., and what does JR do? He invites the crew of the missile cruiser to his house for a party. What a great denoument! Clancy has always been a fun read (except for the execrable Patriots) and he managed to pull me through all 1000+ pages of this one, but mostly out of curiosity over whether ANY of our new weapons systems would fail. I could overlook the right-wing hyperbole on almost every page and the repeated wisecracks; the profanity was a pain in the neck, but I've seen worse. But, having had several PRC students in my classes, I really wonder about the irresponsible characterization of these people that underpins the whole plot. Chinese political leadership may not be as enlightened as we would hope, but they are not as stupid as Clancy portrays them. We would be stupid to think so...
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