Imaginary Presidents by Ivory Gates (PG)

[paian]

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairings: None
Categories: Jack O'Neill, character study, vignette
Warnings: Language
Author on LJ: ivorygates
Author's Website: The Two Gates of Sleep
Link: Imaginary Presidents

Why This Must Be Read:

A short and brutally insightful study of blacks-ops Jack and the construct that keeps him going. About 475 words.

Excerpt:

He'd been in such a goddamned hurry to throw himself back down into the mud. He'd told himself that he did it because nobody ever really got out, and if he was the one doing it, somebody, somewhere could stay clean. And weeks and months and years passed, and he isn't sure when the day came when he realized that there were no innocent victims left anywhere.

Comments

[hooloovoo_42]

As a Sorkin fan, there's no way I couldn't love this. Andrew Sheppard and Jed Bartlet were the guys who wanted to know the virtue of a proportional response. Who wanted to take responsibility for the results of their orders. Who understood that what they said had repercussions.

Thank you.

[paian]

I would so love to know what Jed Barlet, especially, would have made of the Stargate Program -- what he'd have thought of it and what he'd have done with and for it. (And for that matter what Sorkin would have made of the Stargate program ... *g*)

You're welcome!