‘What’s His Plan Son’

It was one of those classic lines in cinema; Fred Thompson's kindly but gruff rebuke of Alec Baldwin's Jack Ryan. "What's his plan son? Ruskies don't take a dump without a plan, and senior commanders don't start something this risky without having thought the matter out." Of course, since Fred left acting to return to politics, the notion of "thinking the matter through" seems to have left the Party that he loves. What a shame. [Read the rest of this article...]