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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (29526)	6/8/2004 9:55:49 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I simply object to people like you infusing anyone with credentials they don't have. It is sheer stupidity to refer to an author as a foremost military expert when the man was an insurance broker by trade and acquired his information re: the military only through research. (Successful authors also have staff or independent contractor assts. so Clancy himself may not even have done the direct researching.) Clancy never even served in the military. This is not to say that Clancy's not a good author. Nor that Clancy hasn't learned anything through his research. It's simply a fact that he's not the "#1 military expert in the country, probably" or a foremost military expert in the world, as you claimed. Now, I understand why you want to prop him up. Apparently he doesn't like Bush. (I haven't seen whatever it is you're touting in advance.) There's also a secondary gain for you to pretend that Clancy is an "expert" because it legitimizes, in a way, your canonization of John Kerry for qualifications he lacks. However, to put it bluntly, Clancy's book research no more qualifies him as a military expert than Kerry's four months in-country in Viet Nam qualifies him as an expert in terrorism. Why don't you get realistic in your claims? Your propensity to exaggerate suggests either an underlying uncertainty in your position, or dare I say, a pathology<g>