During NBC\’s coverage of the attack Tuesday morning, Katie Couric asked Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf something like: Did anyone consider that airliners could be used as weapons by terrorists like this? Schwartzkopf\’s reply: Tom Clancy wrote a book about it.
In Debt of Honor, a 747 is crashed into the U.S. Capitol. Clancy discussed the scenario briefly in a 1997 interview (scroll down about halfway). I really like what he says here: "The fundamental strength of America is not in Washington. It\’s in Peoria, Illinois, in Baltimore, Maryland, in Sacramento, California and all the places where Americans work and do business."
I read somewhere that Clancy was interviewed on CNN on Tuesday, but I don\’t see a transcript on CNN.com. Has anyone run across it? Also, are libraries experiencing increased patron interest in Debt of Honor and its follow-up, Executive Orders?
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