Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham

This book started out well enough but then started to slide left as soon as the weapons were chosen. As you may remember, I posted a note on this book a few weeks ago, March 20th, stating how horrified I was to read the name of the aircraft carrier that was the mother of all future aircraft carriers in the twenty first century 2021, The Hillary Clinton. I found out later in the book the reason why they named the carrier after her was she was murdered in office as President of the United States. The author proclaimed her as the greatest war time president in history. Holy smokes! (Liberals wouldn't have any history if they couldn't make one up.)

Not that I have anything against women, because I don't, they are my best friends. But in this book, they command most of the task force ships and submarines involved in this time warp thingee where all of the ship are projected back to 1942 Midway just as the Japanese are heading for the big show-down that would change the outcome of the war. Believe me it sure changed when then modern ships arrived on the scene.

The women are all strong and smart and know just what to do when the stuff hits the fan. The modern task force materializes right in the middle of the local US navy that was waiting for the enemy to show up at Midway so they could attack them. The women take charge and kick there ass.

Well, the local boys thought the new arrivals were Japanese and even though they were perplexed as to how they snuk-up on them without anyone noticing, both sides starting shoot at each other causing much damage before it could be worked out that they were on the same side.

It not just that women have most of the staring roles in this book or that they seem to have all the smarts when it comes to commanding a ship of war, it's that everyone from the future is so much more in tune with cultural awareness and that the old boys from '42 are mostly hicks, racists and bigots.

In any event, Birmingham writes how hard it is to assimilate to this backward culture. He takes a typical tact of portraying the twenty first century crew members as though they were from the twenty third century or something. They are so superior to the dolts from that they have to deal with in this backwater of our history.

The new crew is made up of all colors and cultures of peoples from all over the world. They say the right thing and the always treat everyone else with total respect. It's the one of the main fantasy's of the new left. Were all one. Lets hold hands, stand in a circle and sing some songs so everything will be better.

It's the hypocrisy of Birmingham that kills the book. Anyone with have half a brain knows that people will always be people no matter what color or race they are. It's a human characteristic to be unpredictable. The navy definitely won't change from what it is today to what the author has written about only fifteen years in the future.

There are three books in this series, and as much as I would like to see how the war ends, I can't read the others as the pain of reality is too much while this book founders in it's attempt to change human nature.