VIRULENT WINDS Flying advanced MiG-41s from a forgotten airfield a covert strike team of hotshot US and Russian pilots wreak havoc throughout the Middle East. With Islamic unity broken and the region gearing up for war, the Russians have one last surprise, a stolen SS-20 nuclear warhead in Sandori hands. The team must fly one last mission to destroy this warhead before it can be moved, but a lone US intelligence officer accidentally discovers the awful truth and the Russians' terrible secret.

Buying the Peace?

By: Jim Clonts, author of Virulent Winds

The North Koreans have been playing a dangerous game for decades. The fact that they played this game against the Clinton Administration for eight years of the struggle has only bolstered their view that they are winning. It’s hard to argue this point. North Korea is a powder keg, a potential nuclear powder keg, run by an arguably insane despot. Kim Jong Il’s Korea is a textbook Communist police state complete with gulags, torture chambers and human rights atrocities, yet we were criticized in the United Nations for not negotiating directly with this madman.

It is an old game the North plays with the United States. Their strategy is simple and effective. Their rhetoric increases, they threaten the South, they threaten Japan, and they threaten to re-activate their nuclear weapons program. We step in and negotiate. Negotiation is what we call “writing them a check”. We give them fuel oil, food and build them nuclear reactors for power generation and they won’t pursue nuclear weapons, they won’t attack the South, the peace will be maintained. Most countries could not hope to get away with a strategy like this, but it helps that Kim Jong Il is viewed in the West as just a little bit insane.

The “payoff” has been the lynchpin in our strategy with the North. It reminds me of a statistic I heard during my USAF officer basic training. Rather than fight the war, it would have been cheaper to pay every man, woman and child in Viet Nam, North and South, $50,000 each if they would cease fighting and live in peace. That is what we tried to do with North Korea during the Clinton Administration and where has it gotten us? The North announced earlier this year (on the eve of the Iraqi invasion) they were continuing to develop nuclear weapons and in true Pavlovian form they salivate at the prospect of a bigger pay-off.

The United States has carried this despotic regime for decades. We’ve made it possible for the Communist to stay in power. We’ve probably contributed as much to North Korea as the Soviet Union did to Cuba and now US Intelligence says they have at least two nuclear weapons and possibly a missile that could hit Hawaii or the West Coast. The North Korean regime has even announced they are now a nuclear power and have promised a live test to prove it. President Bush’s instincts not to continue to support this dictator with food, fuel and nuclear technology are correct, but will the political realities of a nuclear missile aimed at Los Angeles dictate another pay-off? We have to ask ourselves have we really bought peace or just mortgaged a more deadly war for future generations.

-Jim Clonts, Author of VIRULENT WINDS

VIRULENT WINDS The Middle East is uniting under Islamic Jihad and former enemies, Sandor and Kumar, are waging a war of terrorism against both Russia and America. Trying to convert their military might into hard cash, Russia secretly offers a dozen advanced MiG-41s to the United States along with a plan that is both daring and dangerous, but could forever alter the balance of power in the Middle East. Hoping to destroy the unity between Kumar and Sandor, Russian Security Advisor Victor Komiskov and his American counterpart NSA Director Charles Michaels assembles a covert strike team of hotshot US and Russian pilots under the command of renegade General George “Maddog” Tanner. Flying the advanced MiG-41 under the cover of night they cut their teeth on a mission to assassinate a high level Kumari terrorist then turn their attention to a Sandori nuclear facility soon to begin breeding plutonium for its nuclear weapons program. Soon Kumar and Sandor are on the edge of war as each thinks the other responsible for the attacks. With Islamic unity broken and the region gearing up for war, the Russians have one last surprise, a stolen SS-20 nuclear warhead in Sandori hands. The team must fly one last mission to destroy this warhead before it can be moved, but a lone US intelligence officer accidentally discovers the awful truth and the Russians’ terrible secret.

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