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* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Cortez, Cortez, and again Cortez. The man {{spoiler|very nearly}} gets away with manipulating several drug cartels ''and'' the US forces sent to hunt them by playing them like a fiddle. He's no coward, either: his Crowning Moment of Magnificent Bastardry involves {{spoiler|''setting up an assassination attempt on himself'' and then manipulating the cartel into trusting him.}} Holy shit.
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: ultimately played straight.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: the US uses a ''lot'' of morally questionable and highly illegal methods to combat the drug trade, and some of the methods actually work. On a smaller scale, law enforcement agencies--the Coast Guard and an Alabama police department--use similarly extralegal tricks to bring about justice, and the climax features {{spoiler|Jack Ryan and the Pave Low crew disobeying orders to rescue the soldiers.}} Clancy notes that success doesn't justify the illegal nature of many of those actions.
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