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You don't pick generals off park benches. Joining the army or the Marine Corps does not make you into a crypto-alcoholic Nazi, it makes you into a child of America who is doing a job for his country I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly.
As quoted in Escape The Pace: Fun And Easy Ways To Slow Down And Enjoy Your Life by Lisa Rickwood; this quote appears at least as early as online Back then "cruel and unusual punishment" meant the rack and burning at the stake — both of those things that had been used in pre-Revolutionary America — but in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
More than 50 million copies of Clancy's books have been printed, and four have been adapted into major films: The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger and The Sum of All Fears, which debuted on the big screen in, andrespectively.
He is portrayed by Ben Willbondco-writer of the series.