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May 2009

Dear Sir;

I am posting here because you have not activated an e-mail link in your Wiki user profile.

I am writing regarding your recent edit of my description of Tom Clancy's brief rise in notoriety after the 9/11 attacks, and because I believe that we are both fans of Mr. Clancy's work.

I wrote:

"In his 1994 novel Debt of Honor, Clancy writes of an attack on the U.S. Capitol building by a Japanese terrorist - a catastrophy that, through succession, promotes protagonist Jack Ryan to the U.S. Presidency. Seven years later, in reality, "Islamic" terrorists launch just such an attack against major U.S. targets using the same weapon - U.S. jet airliners."

You re-edited my statement, adding more details which I perceive to be in defense of Mr. Clancy. I find this ironic, since the original purpose of my adding the "9/11" section was not to accuse or attack Mr. Clancy. I wrote it to document:

1. The fact that Mr. Clancy was indeed involved in a controversy involving his novel during 9/11.

2. To explore the underlying question of that controversy -

  "why didn't authorities prevent the attack after it had been previously dramatized in popular media?"

3. To suggest that the press suddenly and vindictively lost interest in Mr. Clancy once he started criticizing the news media.

Why doesn't my "9/11" section currently convey any defense of Mr. Clancy? Because it has gradually been re-edited to the point that the original thesis is un-recognizable. And, because to directly defend, attack, praise or accuse someone in a biography is bad academic form.

I believe if you had had the opportunity to read the original then you would have settled for simply changing the term "U.S. jetliners" to just "jetliners". "Debt of Honor" has an empty plane, 9/11 had four planes loaded with passengers. "Debt of Honor" was a Japanese airliner and 9/11 was U.S. airliners. It doesn't matter. It is the same horrific concept of terror. "Debt of Honor" is just "9/11-light". Mr. Clancy was not responsible for it, but he did write about it.

You also deleted my reference to the movie "Black Sunday", stating that it was irrelevent. It was irrelevent when you read the article, because the entire section had previously been gutted by another editor, leaving the "irrelevent" paragraph without context. Here is the original "9/11" section circa May 5th, 2009 -

The 9/11 Attack
In his 1994 novel "Debt of Honor", Clancy writes of an attack on the U.S. Capitol building by Japanese terrorists - a catastrophy that, through succession, promotes protagonist Jack Ryan to the U.S. Presidency. Seven years later, in reality, "Islamic" terrorists launch just such an attack against major U.S. targets using the same weapon - U.S. jet airliners.

Clancy's prophetic plot is not lost on the news media. On the tense afternoon of September 11th, 2001, Mr. Clancy is interviewed by Judy Woodruff on CNN. Among other observations during this interview, Mr. Clancy criticises the new media's treatment of the U.S. intelligence community. Mr. Clancy appeared again on that fateful day, this time on PBS's Charlie Rose , where he debated Vice-Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards. News media interest in Clancy and his novel then seemed to evaporate, until his September 21, 2001, O'Reilly Factor interview on Fox News.

In 1977 the motion picture "Black Sunday" (a veiled reference to the infamous Palestinian terrorist group Black September) dramatized a similar terrorist attack against the United States using a hovering blimp to attack a crowded football stadium.

Freedom of speech and creative expression in Western society bears the inherent risk that enemies of that society may use this uncontrolled knowledge against it. In another quote from his The O'Reilly Factor interview, regarding the publication of his "Debt of Honor" Mr. Clancy states:

"Bill, that's the price you pay for living in a free society, as we have today. If you want to go be like the Soviet Union, where it was illegal, for example, to take a photograph of a train station, just -- you know, you can restrict our civil liberties that far, but you end up being like the Soviet Union was, and that was a failure."

So while it is likely that many enemies of Western society were educated in the West or have heavy exposure to Western popular culture , it is unproven whether the publication of Mr. Clancy's novel "Debt of Honor" or news media coverage of the U.S. Intelligence community contributed to the the success of the 9/11 attacks.

Other Tom Clancy novels involve plots with terrorists triggering a nuclear device at the Super Bowl in Colorado Sum of All Fears (1991) and teams of armed terrorists assaulting crowded U.S. shopping malls with automatic weaponsTeeth of the Tiger (2003).

The paragraph regarding "Black Sunday" was a clear example of where other writers like Thomas Harris had made similar "suggestions" before Tom Clancy had even started writing. So, even if popular fiction writers have given "ideas" to terrorists, Clancy was certainly not the first one. In an academic, reasoned way, I was defending Mr. Clancy.

"But who suggested that Clancy was providing a guide-map for terrorists in the first place?" you may ask. The press was not interviewing him on 9/11 because they suspected that he was a prophet. Underlying the sudden controversy surrounding Clancy and his "Debt of Honor" was the lingering question "Did the novel or ones like it show how it could be done?". And who was brave enough to ask the question? Bill O'Reilly:

"It is so close to what really happened. And my question in my mind was, if Tom Clancy can write about this and put forth a very plausible scenario, and I know all the intelligence guys in the United States read your books, why weren't they more -- why wasn't there more urgency to make it more difficult to do what happened?"

The sub-text here is - If Clancy and other fiction writers warned the good guys, didn't they also advise the bad guys too? Clancy's sensible answer to O'Reilly's question is quoted above but was removed from my writing.

I do not want to re-edit your work without consulting you first. I am going to try to negociate with the other editor to restore my work to some semblance of its former meaning.

                    Respectfully yours,

                    Vosperdw (talk) 05:30, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S.

I also wrote/edited later in the TC article:

"Debt of Honor (1994) In this prophetic novel, a secret cabal of extreme nationalists gains control of Japan (having acquired some nuclear weapons), and start a war with the U.S. Ryan, now National Security Advisor, and Clark and Chavez, agents in Japan, help win the war. The Vice President resigns in a scandal, and the President appoints Ryan to replace him. A vengeful, die-hard Japanese airline pilot then crashes a jetliner into the U.S. Capital during a joint session of Congress attended by most senior U.S. government leaders, including the President. Ryan thus becomes the new President through succession."

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