Six National Security Questions That will Never Be Asked.

[Sam1]

By Andrew J. Bacevich

To judge by the early returns, the presidential race of 2016 is shaping up as the most disheartening in recent memory. Other than as a form of low entertainment, the speeches, debates, campaign events, and slick TV ads already inundating the public sphere offer little of value. Rather than exhibiting the vitality of American democracy, they testify to its hollowness.

Present-day Iranian politics may actually possess considerably more substance than our own. There, the parties involved, whether favoring change or opposing it, understand that the issues at stake have momentous implications. Here, what passes for national politics is a form of exhibitionism about as genuine as pro wrestling.

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[EdwardBernays]

1. Americans choose

As a group to be willfully ignorant.

The US regularly engages in what it would call war crimes if any other country did it.

And because we can't be challenged directly we are able to just ignore reality.

It won't end well.

[bemildred]

2. LOL.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Quite honestly I was expecting deeper questions, given the setup

1. Too generic and simplistic, more of a rhetorical question than anything else

2. Another meaningless rhetorical question, since the writer knows the answer damn well just like everyone else

3. This is actually a decent question...

4. ...And then he turns around and asks the fucking dumbest of questions

5. He *should* be asking why so many European NATO members have been getting away with under-funding their financial commitments to defense, which requires the U.S. to take up the slack...

6. Perhaps he should educate himself on the issue before asking something this outrageous...