Tom Clancy Was Right

This is the kind of shit that Rainbow Six was established to deal with.

Oh wait, Rainbow Six is a fictional organization thought up by Tom Clancy, oops my bad.

As much as one could say that Tom Clancy’s world is a bit… bleak, what with all of the nuclear and chemical attacks on U.S. soil, war with Japan, China and Saudi Arabia and all other manner of rather dangerous occurrences messing up the average Joe’s life, on days like today, it seems almost utopian to me.

For those of you who don't know, team Rainbow is the result of consummate bad asses John Clark and Ding Chavez getting U.N. sanctioning to put together a team of other consummate bad asses from all across the globe to work together and kick all kinds of ass. The team had members for the Navy S.E.A.L.S., Army Operation Detachment Delta, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, United Kingdom 22 S.A.S. and all manner of other sneaky and deadly organizations. Team Rainbow didn’t exist to fulfill any sort of need in a certain country’s agenda, they were formed to be the best possibly at what they were tasked to do, and what they were tasked to do was fight terrorism.

India isn’t equipped to face the terrorist invasion that they’re facing in Mumbai, they could certainly bomb the place to oblivion (their Air Force is excellent) and kill every terrorist in the area with ease, but that would also kill all of their civilians as well, not a good proposition.

What India needs is a substantial counter-terrorist force that is trained to face this type of situation, unfortunately, training and equipping a large component of special operators is about as expensive as doing the same with a squadron of F-16 pilots, and seems (on the surface) to be a bad use of funds, and so now, they’ve found themselves with their pants down, forced to use traditional commandos (trained for raids on enemy camps, not on hotels) to free their civilians.

I would bet you $100 that nearly every special operator in America is watching the news right now and wringing their hands, this is the operation of a lifetime for them, and yet they’re forced to watch from half a world away as hundreds of people die at the hands of terrorists that they’ve trained for years to kill. And while it would be the right move to make, there is no way that India would let U.S. (or British) troopers onto their soil, this is their problem, and they’ll deal with it.

And get far too many innocents are dying in the process.

I can’t help but think that maybe a multinational counter-terrorist organization in the vein of Rainbow would be let into Mumbai to deal with the situation, but unfortunately, no such agency exists...

Except in the Clancy-verse, and so more people are inevitably going to die.