Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with the I.R.A. to "Clear and Present Danger." But who has the nerve to stand up to a potboiler novelist who has made millions from his thrilling action-adventure flicks. If Jack Ryan were a real person, I'm sure he would have no problem...
These plot distinctions make this film more intellectually stimulating than "Patriot Games." It also removes the xenophobic malaise which over rode the entirety of the former blockbuster and replaces it with a cynical, probably more truthful look into the Washington political machine. Instead of bad guys breaking into his house, trespassing on the home and family Ryan has tried so hard to maintain, here we have Ryan confronting the drug lords in a tete a tete which would make any undercover CIA person scared to his bones...
...share of the lucrative international market in arms has been increasing--first the Israelis, then alternately Iran and Iraq, now the Saudis and Kuwaitis. But for China and Russia, every sale is a vital boost to a precariously balanced economy. Silkworms and SCUDs don't' just pay workers like patriot missiles and F-15 Eagles do in the U.S.; they also keep the governments of those vast nations in power...
Given these firmly rooted interests in costly but regional wars, can we ever expect to see lasting peace in the Middle East? A bill to sell Patriot missiles to Yasir Arafat would probably have a hard time passing Congress, but that kind of idea is already on the wrong track. Pumping more arms into the area can't possible do any good. It's hard not to use your weapons when you have so darn many of them, but you've got to learn to take your hand off the trigger...
...great to take sides in the cold civil war between Western- oriented reformers and nationalist-hard-line communists. The reformers have misgivings about Solzhenitsyn's nationalist views, but they have cautiously welcomed his return. Hard-liners see Solzhenitsyn as a rival for the hearts and minds of Russian "patriots," and question his motives; he has already called ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky "an evil caricature of a Russian patriot." The weekly Zavtra, which speaks for hard-line nationalists, bitingly denounced his return: "Ayatollah Khomeini has landed in Vladivostok...