"Clancy, Tom - Op-Center 07 - Divide and Conquer - with Jeff Rovin" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clancy Tom)

The red-haired man sighed, put his glass on the table, and rose.

"You've got to get ready for the briefing. Is there anything else you
need?"

The taller man stabbed the ashes, destroying them.

Then he replaced the poker and faced the red-haired man.

"Yes," he said.

"I need you to relax. There's only one thing we have to fear."

The red-haired man smiled knowingly.

"Fear itself."

"No," said the other.

"Panic and doubt. We know what we want, and we know how to get there.
If we stay calm and sure, we've got it."

The red-haired man nodded. Then he picked up the leather briefcase from
beside the chair.

"What was it that Benjamin Franklin said? That revolution is always
legal in the first person, as in 'our' revolution. It's only illegal in
the third person, as in 'their' revolution."

"I never heard that," said the taller man.

"It's nice."

The red-haired man smiled.

"I keep telling myself that what we're doing is the same thing the
founding fathers did. Trading a bad form of government for a better
one."

"That's correct," the other man said.

"Now, what I want you to do is go home, relax, and watch a football
game. Stop worrying. It's all going to work out."

"I wish I could be as confident."

"Wasn't it Franklin who also said, "In this world nothing can be said to
be certain, except death and taxes'?