“That’s the Irish for you–the land of sad loves and happy wars.”
Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six
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“That’s the Irish for you–the land of sad loves and happy wars.”
Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six
Hey!
Watch it – I resemble that remark.
Yeah. ME TOO!
At least. 43% according to 23 and me…
“There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer. They have destroyed without trial. I have paid them back in their own coin”
Michael Collins
Married Irish, lots of happy little wars for the past 38 years 😉
Love my ancestry and the early Clancy books. Did not read rainbow six.
First time I have read it, I am about 3/4 the way through it. Tom Clancy was prophetic in that book concern what we have endured with this Covid crap in one of the subplots in the book. He saw the writing on the wall. I recommend reading it Bear Claw.
He was prophetic in all his books that I read.
Can’t remember which one that ended with a jihadi who crossed the southern border pulling a stinger out of a van in the cell phone parking lot in Phoenix and downing a passenger liner but I expected a real life copy cat of that after.
I will take you up on that reading Cederq
ps Read his older books, they were all great and a hell of a lot better than the hollyweird shit replicated from them.
Irish Alzheimers – you forget everthing but the grudges
Agree about Rainbow Six. Great book and prophetic. Last good book Clancy wrote unless bear and the dragon came after and I misremember the order. Everything before was super-duper fantastic and I’ve read all multiple times.
Everything after was shit. As if a different person wrote them and I think they did
For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.
–G.K. Chesterton