“The Third Episode completely undersells how much of a reactionary Clancy was. The movie isn’t “inspired” by Iran-Contra; it IS Iran-Contra as told to Clancy by his hero, Ollie North. Greer isn’t Colin Powell; he’s Bill Casey, all the way down to the terminal illness which precluded from taking the blame for his protege (because Casey totally would have, according to the delusions of Clancy and North).
Now, I get it. I’m a Gen Xer who lived through this, but one of things I hated about the book and the movie is how Clancy get away with portraying North, a felon, con man, thief, and war criminal as a hero. And, I hate that our two millennials completely missed that part”
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11/29/21