Curses! The plot is out!

[james_davis_nicoll]

(CNN) -- An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.

It's funny but while I can easily think of a Second Civil War novel that used a thinly disguised Hillary Clinton, I have yet to be send one featuring Obama in an analogous role.

In this classic SF novel



The Texans are motivated mainly by being Texan; their political police come across nearly as warm and lovable as the Stasi.

(This was one of the books that made me notice how often American Vice Presidents are presented as a villains, even administrations otherwise presented sympathetically; the Texans kidnapped the President with the aid of the VP, who has an eye on the top post for himself)

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Who are they putting up for the role of invaders in the remake? The Chinese? A Canadian-Mexican alliance?

[anzhalyumitethe.livejournal.com]

North Koreans.

It was China, but the Chinese objected and they redid chunks of it

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

More along the lines of the studio realising "You know, China's a big market, with lot of potential ticket sales. Maybe we shouldn't piss them off, they might not let it be shown."

[(Anonymous)]

North Korea invades the US - I've heard of that for a while, but the sheer contempt for the viewer's intellect still is breathtaking. Are they perchance allied to Iran, Cuba, and, I dunno, an evil Mexico?

Bruce

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Quonster must be so happy.

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

An Evil Mexico would make the logistics...

well, "make sense" is a bit too strong, so let's say "move far too close to making sense to belong anywhere near this project"

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Apparently in the movie the NKs have some sort of sercret weapon that turns off technology. Frankly they might as well have given them anime style combat robots, it would be about as believeable. Even if you grant them the tech gimmick they wouldn't have the troop numbers or logistics capabilities to pull it off.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

In the Homefront video game (written by the same guy) the NKs launched a surprise EMP decapitation attack before the landings. So far as logistics go, the US had acted so egregiously-poorly on the world stage that other countries either turned their backs or gave the Koreans support in the hopes that they'd be less of a problem.

Thin as it is, apparently it was enough to hang a game upon.

-- Steve will point out that the game wasn't terribly well received by critics and players, for what that's worth.