Well said, Sir! I personally, was turned off by all the aggression. It's also a shame that the moderator was so BLATANTLY biased! I agree with you that we really need to drop this style of debate. The "Town Hall" style doesn't work when they are limited to only 2 minutes. I personally would love to see a Lincoln v Douglas style debate. NO moderator, just the 2 opponents going back & forth. But, we all know NEITHER camp would go for that! To much of a chance that they would be shown as the politicians they truly are! i.e. lying, flip flopping, crooks! Unfortunately, I think TRUE debates are a thing of the past. Today a debate is nothing more then repeatedly getting your talking points out there. Voters really learn anything new about the opponents in today's presidential debates. I think they have their place in the primaries, but no longer in the general election, and THAT is a shame!
the biggest foreign policy debacle since Iran-Contra
So, mishandling the aftermath of a single small terrorist attack is a bigger debacle than any of the following:
Invading a country on what later turned out to be false pretenses; Blowing the cover of a CIA agent in retaliation for her husband whistleblowing; Clinton's mishandling of the Bosnia-Serbian war (spent billions of dollars on military involvement that had little to no effect while appeasing some of the worst war criminals); Running world-wide 'secret prisons' that implicitly sanctioned torture; Intervening with troops in Somalia for several years before just giving up and withdrawing in failure; Imposing tarriffs that were so far in violation of global trade laws, the WTO authorized the EU to impose sanctions against the US;
I think your view of what the worst policy errors are may be biased by 'if it happened more recently, it's more prominent in our minds'.
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So, mishandling the aftermath of a single small terrorist attack is a bigger debacle than any of the following:
Invading a country on what later turned out to be false pretenses;
Blowing the cover of a CIA agent in retaliation for her husband whistleblowing;
Clinton's mishandling of the Bosnia-Serbian war (spent billions of dollars on military involvement that had little to no effect while appeasing some of the worst war criminals);
Running world-wide 'secret prisons' that implicitly sanctioned torture;
Intervening with troops in Somalia for several years before just giving up and withdrawing in failure;
Imposing tarriffs that were so far in violation of global trade laws, the WTO authorized the EU to impose sanctions against the US;
I think your view of what the worst policy errors are may be biased by 'if it happened more recently, it's more prominent in our minds'.
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